LIBRARY ^SSACHt,^, 1895 HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT BRIDGEWATER, IN PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, *. INCLUDING AN EXTENSIVE FAMILY REGISTER. By NAHUM MITCHELL BOSTON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY KIDDER & WRIGHT, 32 CONGRESS STREET. 1840. UP. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S40, Br Nahum Mitchell, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. i b 1 I * S7 PREFACE More than twenty years ago I wrote a short account of the origin and first settlement of Bridgewater, which was published in the 7th vol. 2d series of the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In course of the requisite enquiries and researches it came in my way to acquire some distinct knowledge of the names and families of the original proprietors and early residents. To the stock of information thus obtained I subse- quently, from time to time, as opportunity presented, made con- siderable accessions till my manuscripts became numerous and somewhat particular. This becoming generally known to my friends in the town and vicinity, applications were frequently made to me for information as to the genealogy of particular families ; and at length desires were strongly expressed that what I had collected in this way should be published. These solicitations have been repeated and multiplied for several years past, and have sometimes been met on my part with partial promises of compliance. Many causes have concurred to delay a final determination, and it is not without much hesitation, and some reluctance, that I have come at last to the conclusion to publish. While many seem to care but little, and think less, about their own descent, or from whom they are sprung : there is, neverthe- less, in most of us a strong desire to know something of those who have preceded us on the same stage, and of the manner in which they have performed their respective parts. There is also an increasing attention to the biography of our fathers and the first planters of New England. Each one finds a pleasure in knowing something of his own particular ancestor, who first left the old world and set his foot on the new ; and in being able to trace accurately his own descent from him. But the elements of such knowledge are fast fading away, and the difficulties of acquir- ing it, already great, are constantly increasing. The principal purpose of the present publication is to afford the inhabitants of Bridgewater, and those who were born or early resided there, wherever they may now live, some knowledge of those from whom they are descended, and if possible to enable them to see every link of the chain connecting them with their first American ancestor. There are but few instances where it has been practicable to go beyond our own shores in search of European ancestry ; and in many cases it has been difficult, and often impossible, to ascertain the first ancestor even in our own country. This has been the case especially where new families in later times came into the town from other distant places. And where any individual, with or without his family, has removed from the town, it has not generally been attempted to trace the descent any further. It would be not only difficult, but liable to much error. It must be observed also, that as most of this work was prepared many years ago, the descent is not generally brought down much Avithin the present century, and that therefore the younger families born since, and most of the numerous fami- lies, who have come into town within the last twenty or thirty years, will not appear at all in the account here presented. It would have swelled the book, already large, to an unwieldy size. Having brought it down within the knowledge and memories of the present generation, they can continue it, each one for himself, if disposed. In giving dates, months and days are generally omitted, but can be supplied when necessary by a recurrence to the records. The insertion of them would have occupied much room without any adequate advantage. Great as has been the labor of research and the care in com- piling this publication,there will still appear in it great deficiencies. No notice will be found of many individual members, and even whole branches of many of the families. Some parents neg- lected altogether to have their children recorded. Others had it done partially, their younger children not being found on the record. These defects were to be supplied only, if at all, by resorting to other sources, many of which were not always to be relied on, and family traditions and recollections least of any. All, who have been most conversant with investigations of this kind, have had frequent opportunity to test the truth of this last remark. These defects are much to be regretted as they often occasion an apparent breach in the line of descent. The first part of this work contains a short history of the ori- ginal purchases, locations, and early settlement of the town, embracing much of the former account, with such additions as were thought to be generally interesting. There is a great simi- larity in the general history and internal management of public affairs, in all our New England towns, the recital of which there- fore, to most readers, would be but dull repetitions, and uninter- esting details. Very little of this nature is here inserted ; and individual biography also, always a delicate subject, and often leading to invidious distinctions, has been for the most part avoided. Facts have been principally regarded, and the most sedulously sought, both in the historical and genealogical depart- ment of the work. The plan here adopted in presenting the genealogy of families may be objectionable ; but after a full examination of all the methods, which have fallen under my notice, and after much consideration of the subject, this appeared the most simple and easy of comprehension. Every head of a family is numbered, the common ancestor being number one, expressed or understood, and after disposing of the daughters by showing who they mar- ried or otherwise, and such of the sons as had no families, or re- moved from town, then the first son who had a family is taken and numbered two, and then the next son, numbered three, and so on, proceeding with the family of each, as with that of the father ; and this course is pursued through each generation. It will not there- fore be expected always to find the son next in place immediately after the father, but he must be looked for often several numbers further on, and sometimes at a considerable distance. So in tracing back a descent the inner numbers within the parenthesis will direct where the father may be found, and being found the parenthesis there will direct where the grandfather will be found, and so on quite back to the common ancestor. A little use will render it familiar, and it is believed to be the simplest method, on the whole, which could have been adopted, especially in such numer- ous and extended familes as sometimes occur. It will often be found that some of the children named are not afterwards no- ticed, which happens in cases only where no knowledge of them could he obtained. Female ancestors, if inhabitants of the town, will be ascertained generally by a recurrence to the respective families to which they belong. Much labor and care have been bestowed to render the work correct, but after all it cannot be but many mistakes have been made. The genealogy in particular is peculiarly liable to them. In large families there are often the same christian names to be found in the different branches, and one may be often mistaken for another, and in this way, among others, no doubt much con- fusion may have happened. Probable as it is, however, that many errors will be detected, it is still hoped those partial friends who have been most solicitous for its publication, and who anti- cipate both pleasure and profit from its perusal, may not be wholly disappointed. Having labored for their gratification, it will be gratifying in turn to find the labor has not been in vain. In preparing the work the records of the town of Bridgewater, and of its several parishes and churches, have been the first and principal sources, whence the materials have been derived. The old Colony and Plymouth county records have furnished also valuable information. Judge Davis' improved edition of Morton's, New England Memorial, Farmer's Register, the Collections of the Mass. Hist. Society, and various local histories have also been advantageously consulted. But so many and so various have been the sources, both public and private, from which information and facts have been obtained, that it would be difficult, if recol- lected, to enumerate them. The loss of all the early records of Duxbury previous to 1G54, which are said to have been burnt, is greatly to be regretted, as it was the parent town of Bridgewater, the first home and residence in this country of most of our fathers and original settlers in this then Plantation. It may well be supposed those records would have furnished us with much valu- able information. The Colony records of births and deaths pre- vious to 1CI7 are also lost, some of the first leaves by time or accident having been destroyed, which to the antiquarian is a deprivation much to be deplored. Some remarks on the old and new style with regard to time are here subjoined as not perhaps inappropriate. There was formerly among- all nations, as well christian as pagan, a great diversity not only with regard to the commence- ment of the year, some adopting the autumnal and some the vernal equinox, some the winter and some the summer solstice, and others other periods of the year ; but also as to the epochs of the different eras, as the creation of the world, the deluge, the call of Abraham, and the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, in sacred chronology, and the destruction of Troy, the building of Rome and other events, adopted among the ancient and eastern nations. There seemed to be no specific common standard. When the computation of time by the Christian era com* menccd, which was about the year 527, the year was made to commence on the 25th of March, supposed to be the day of the Annunciation of the Incarnation of Christ. This, known now by the name of the Old Style, continued in England and through- out all her dominions till 1752, when by an Act of Parliament eleven days were stricken from the month of September, calling the 3d the 14th, and one day added to February every 4th year, herein conforming to other nations, several of whom on the con- tinent had about 1582 adopted this computation, for the purpose of correcting the error occasioned by the precession of the equi- noxes ; and by the same act the 1st day of January instead of the 25th of March was also established as the commencement of the year. In the interim, between the time of its adoption by other nations and 1752, when England adopted it, double dating from January 1st to March 25th was frequently practised in England and her Colonies in order to correspond with the com- putation on the continent. Thus, for instance, February 8th 1720-21, or 1720-1 was substituted for simply February 8, 1721, the last number being the true date, and if omitted might occa.- sion an error of a year. This has been called the Gregorian year (Pope Gregory 13th having established it in 1582), or New Style, and is very necessary to be known and observed by all when consulting ancient dates and records. In this work ancient dates are generally made to conform to the New Style, double dating being rejected. NAHUM MITCHELL. Boston, May 1th, 1840, CORRECTIONS. Page 37. To the Senators there mentioned may be added the names of Hon. William Baylies, Aaron Hobart, Abel Kingman, and John A. Shaw. Page 73. 1702, last line but one, for Ensign Mitchell's, read Ensign Mitchell's land. Page 93. James Alger (s. of Thomas 12.) m. Olive, D. of Joseph Snell, 1781, and not Mehitabel Briggs of Nor- ton : this last was copied by mistake from Thomas 12, page 92. Page 114. JosephBeal 1752, finally removed to Plainfield, where he was Deacon, and the subject of the " Mountain Miller"; and Azariah was son of Jonathan 5, and not (of Samuel 1.). Page 152. 8. Benjamin in. 1715, not 1755. Page 157. Erskin, 2d line, Gain, not Gaius. Page 161, No. 12. The title of Judge prefixed to Abner Fobes should be General in both instances ; and Edward of Buckland had William, Sarah, and Abner who gra. Williams College 1S20, and is preceptor of the Smith School in Boston, and writes his name Forbes. Also under No. 19, for Phrez read Perez. Page 162. Susanna, D. of Eliab Fobes, m. a King, partner of Thomas Fobes in Boston, and afterwards a Lamphear, who afterwards m. Lucinda, D. of David Ames of Springfield ; and Hannah m. a Tucker. Susanna who m. a Hooper, and Hannah who m. a Macomber, be- longed to some other family probably. Page 163, No. 2. Polly Ford m. Abner Fobes, son of Benjamin, and not Judge (or General) Abner. Page 167. 10. Simeon of— the of should be within the paren- thesis (s. of &c. Page 169. James H. Gurney m. Delpha Stetson 1813, not Debo- rah Reed 1816. Page 22S. 7. Line 9, for New Bedford read Newport. The reader is informed that besides the abbreviations noticed at the head of the Register, the initials only of the neighboring and adjoining towns are often used ; as A. for Abing- ton, C. fo/ Canton, E. for Easton, H. for Halifax, M. for Mid- dleborough, P. for Pembroke, R. for Raynham, S. or St. for Stoughton, T. for Taunton, &c. HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. ORIGINAL GRANTS, ADDITIONS, AND BOUNDARIES. Bridgewater was originally a plantation granted to Duxbury. When the township of Marshfield became a separate and distinct corporation, Duxbury, from which Marshfield had been princi- pally taken, applied to the Old Colony court, at Plymouth, for a grant of common land, or, as they expressed it, " an extension to the westward," as a compensation for the great loss of territory they had thus sustained. We find in the records the following order of court relating to it : — " March, 1642. It is concluded upon by the court, that the northerly bounds of Marshfield shall be, from the rock that is flat on the top, to the North River, by a north-west line from Green's Harbor Fresh, to the tree called Poole's, and to take in Edward Bonpass' land; provided that Duxbury have enlarge- ment beyond Massachusetts' path, when they have viewed it." Two years afterwards the court passed the following more explicit and definite order : — "August, 1644. Upon the petition of Duxbury men it is 2 10 HISTORY OF THE thought good by the court, that there be a view taken of the lands described by them, namely, twelve miles up into the woods from Plymouth bounds at Jones' River ; and if it prove not prejudicial to the plantation to be erected at Teightaquid, (Titicut,) nor to the meadows of Plymouth at Winnytuckquett, (Winnetuxet,) it may be confirmed unto them; provided, also, the herring or alewife river at Namassachusett shall be equally between the two towns of Duxbury and Marshfield." The next year the grant was made and confirmed to them as follows : — " 1645. The inhabitants of the town of Duxbury are granted a competent proportion of lands about Saughtuchquett, (Sa- tucket,) towards the west, for a plantation for them, and to have it four miles every way from the place where they shall set up their centre ; provided it intrench not upon Winnytuckquett, formerly granted to Plymouth. And we have nominated Capt. Miles Standish, Mr. John Alden, George Soule, Constant South- worth, John Rogers, and William Brett, to be feofees in trust for the equal dividing and laying forth the said lands to the inhabitants." How the town proceeded in dividing these lands among the inhabitants, or how, by whom, or when it was determined what residence or other circumstance should entitle any one to a share, no record informs us ; we are only told in subsequent writings, and particularly in Gov. Hinckley's confirmation, that the inhabitants settled this matter " by an agreement among themselves." They were at first but fifty-four, each of whom had one share, and were denominated original proprietors. Their names are thus given on the town records : — William Bradford, Edward Hall, William Merrick, Nicholas Robbins, John Bradford, Thomas Hayward, Abraham Pierce, Mr. Ralph Partridge, John Rogers, Nathaniel Willis, George Partridge, John Willis, John Starr, Thomas Bonney, Mr. William Collier, Mr. Miles Standish, Christopher Wadsworth, Love Brewster, early settlement of bridgewater. 11 John Paybody, John Irish, William Paybody, Philip Delano, Francis Sprague, Arthur Harris, William Bassett, Mr. John Alden, John Washburn, John Fobes, John Washburn, Jr., Samuel Nash, John Ames, Abraham Sampson, . Thomas Gannett, George Soule, William Brett, Experience Mitchell, Edmund Hunt, Henry Howland, William Clarke, Henry Sampson, William Ford, John Brown, Mr. Constant Southwort , John Haward, John Cary, Francis West, Edmund Weston, William Tubbs, Samuel Tompkins, James Lendall, Edmund Chandler, Samuel Eaton, Moses Simmons', Solomon Leonard. To these fifty-four shares the proprietors afterwards added two more, and granted one to the Rev. James Keith, of Scotland, their first minister, and the other to Deacon Samuel Edson, of Salem, who erected the first mill in the town, making in all fifty -six shares. The grant of this plantation was considered by the court as preemptive merely, and as little more than an authority or right to purchase it of the natives : and accordingly Capt. Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth, were ap- pointed to make the purchase, which service they performed as will appear by the following deed. "Witness these presents, that I Ousamequin, Sachem of the country of Poconocket, have given, granted, enfeofed, and sold unto Miles Standish of Duxbury, Samuel Nash and Constant Southworth of Duxbury aforesaid, in behalf of all the towns- men of Duxbury aforesaid, a tract of land usually called Satucket, extending in the length and breadth thereof as follow- eth, that is to say, from the wear at Satucket seven miles due east, and from the said wear seven miles due west, and from the said wear seven miles due north, and from the said wear seven miles due south ; the which tract the said Ousamequin hath 12 HISTORY OF THE given, granted, enfeofed, and sold unto the said Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth in the behalf of all the townsmen of Duxbury as aforesaid, with all the immunities, privileges, and profits whatsoever belonging to the said tract of land, with all and singular all woods, underwoods, lands, mea- dows, rivers, brooks, rivulets, &c, to have and to hold to the said Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth in behalf of all the townsmen of the town of Duxbury, to them and their heirs forever. In witness whereof I the said Ousa- mequin have hereunto set my hand this 23d of March, 1649. John Bradford, ) Witness the $ Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, Constant Southworth. Wm. Otway (alias) Parker, j mark of 1/ OUSAMEQUIN. In consideration of the aforesaid bargain and sale, we the said Miles Standish, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth do bind ourselves to pay unto the said Ousamequin for and in consideration of the said tract of land as followeth : — 7 Coats, a yard and a half "] in a coat, D Hatchets, 8 Hoes, 20 Knives, 4 Moose Skins, 10 Yards and a half of Cot- ton. J It appears the worthy old Sachem, when called on to execute his deed, endeavored to verify the testification he had offered, by affixing his mark or signature to the instrument as near as he could in the rude form and shape of his hand.- The grantor, Ousamequin, or Ossamequin, sometimes also written Woose- mequin, was the good old Massasoit himself, who in the latter part of his life had adopted that name. It was no uncommon occurrence for these Chiefs or Sachems to assume new names, which were probably appropriate and expressive of the princi- pal exploits or events, which had occasioned the change. This purchase and contract were said to have been made and executed on a small rocky hill, anciently called Sachem's Rock, a little south of Whitman's Mills, where the East Bridgewater manufacturing establishment now is, and near the house where EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 13 Seth Latham formerly lived, now owned and occupied by David Kingman. The Indian name of the place was Wonnocooto. The wear, which was made the central point of the purchase, was some distance above the present mills, directly back of the late Deacon William Harris' house on the south side, and of the late Deacon Barzillai Allen's house, on the north side of the river, near the ancient fording place and where the first mill on the river was erected. Traces of the old road are still visible on both sides of the river, and particularly on the south side. The mill was subsequently taken down, and a new one erected further down stream, near where the works now stand. The old wear was entirely overflowed by the iicav mill pond, and of course discontinued as a fishing place. This river, and the pond from which it proceeds, now called Robins' Pond, as well as the whole neighborhood in which they are situated, still retain the name of Satucket, a contraction of Saughtuckquett, Saughquatuckquett, or Massaquatuckquett, as it was sometimes written. While the grant from the court was only four miles every way from the wear, equal to eight miles square, this purchase from the Indians was seven miles every way, equal to fourteen miles square. The reason of this differ- ence is not very obvious, but probably the purchase was made thus extensive, with a view to additional contemplated grants, or perhaps to give themselves room to locate their four miles every way more advantageously, as they had the express privilege of setting up their centre, wherever they should deem it most conducive to their interest. For some reasons, however, now inexplicable, they neglected to fix and establish their centre, notwithstanding the frequent and pressing admonitions of the court. In 1656, eleven years after the grant of the plantation, and the same year in which Bridgewater was incorporated into a distinct township, a grant of three hundred acres had been made to Capt. Miles Standish, "with a competency of meadow to such a proportion of upland, lying and being at Satucket Pond ; provided it came not within the court's grant of Bridge- water." Hence it became necessary that the centre of Bridge- water should be fixed, in order to ascertain its limits and extent. It was with this view, and for the purpose of running out and 14 HISTORY OF THE locating Capt. Standish's grant, that the court had so urgently- called on Bridgewater to fix and " set up" their centre. In the spring of 1658 the court ordered, "that the centre of the town of Bridgewater should be set sometime this summer before October court." Still it was not done. Again in 1660, Mr. (AVilliam) Bradford, Constant Southworth and William Paybody were " requested and appointed by court to lay out the land granted to Capt. Standish, at Satucket Pond ;" and at the same time ."Mr. Josiah Standish was appointed by the court to join with any two, whom the town of Bridgewater should appoint, to set out the bounds of their town, betwixt that time and the last of July then next on the penalty of fifty shillings, which, if forfeited, should be paid to those appointed to lay out Capt. Standish's land, who were ordered to lay out their line." It seems, however, the town still neglected it, as we find no record of any committee appointed for the purpose, nor any other movement or agency of the town concerning it. The only record relating to the subject appears altogether historical, without date, and quite out of place in the book where it is inserted. It is as follows : — " The town, receiving an order from the court at New Ply- mouth to fix and set up the centre of their town in order to the laying out of Mr. Alexander Standish's land, joining to the outside of said Bridgewater four mile line from the said centre ; which being, according to said order, done about the year 1659 ; the centre being a small white oak tree of low stature about a foot over, standing on high ground, on the westerly side of a stony swamp and brook, about ten rods to the westerly side of said brook on the southerly side of the highway ; the said .tree being marked on the easterly side with an S, and on the westerly side with a C, it being a mile and a quarter to the eastward of said Bridgewater meeting house." This entry, without date, by the place it occupies in the records, and the dates of entries immediately before and after it, appears not to have been made before 1695, thirty years or more after the work was performed ; and it is moreover incorrect as to the year in which it was done, as the court's committee was not appointed till 1660, and Stand- ish's land was not laid out till 1663. It is very evident also that EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 15 the court's committee at last, and not the town, fixed the centre, as the monumental tree bore the initials of Constant Southworth, (C. S.,) who no doubt was the efficient member of the court's committee in performing the work. Capt. Miles Standish had in the mean time deceased, and the land was laid out to his son Alexander. It cannot be doubted that Bridgewater was assent- ing to, if not aiding in this result, as there is neither record or tradition that any dissatisfaction was ever manifested by them. This centre is about a mile and a half west of the old wear at Satucket, and the place has ever since been called the Centre, and is near the house of Thomas Hayward, now aged eighty- six, whose father Thomas, and grandfather Thomas lived on the same spot, which will probably also descend to his son Thomas now living with him. They have successively owned and occu- pied it from its first settlement ; about 140 years. In 1658 the town petitioned the court for a grant of a large and valuable tract of sAvamp and meadow lands, called by the Indians Hockomock, lying on the west side of the town towards Taunton, (now Easton and Raynham,) as appears, as well as the reasons assigned for it, in the following order of court : — "It is agreed by the court that there shall be chosen such as the town of Bridgewater shall think meet, that are no ways engaged in the new plantation of Duxbury, to view out the land and meadow desired by Bridgewater, and to consider of the reasonableness of their desire, in reference to the accommo- dating of some useful men in church and commonwealth, and make true report of the same to the court." — The. same was afterwards granted, and confirmed to them as follows : — " 1662. " In answer to a petition preferred to the court by Bridgewater it is agreed, that the meadow land lying northward and westward from the Centre within the seven miles is granted them." The centre here, as well as the seven miles, refers no doubt to the original purchase of the Indians, the new centre tree not having been then fixed and established. This will appear from the deposition of Constant Southworth and Samuel Nash, two of the purchasers, which had been taken about this time in conse- quence of some doubts entertained by the court probably, 10 HISTORY OF THE whether the purchase Mould include the lands prayed for by the town. It is here subjoined : — " The town (Duxbury) appointed me with others to purchase of Ossamequin a tract of land about a place known to our town by the name of Satucket, which we did from the centre six miles, which centre is the wear in the river above expressed, and we paid him for it ; the writing or deed expressed, under Ossamequin's own hand, was seven miles. — The oath of Con- stant Southworth, Lieut. Nash being also deposing to the same ; in court held at Plymouth, June 10th, 1002." A few years afterwards, July 5, 1007, the town made applica- tion to the court for a more general and extensive grant, whereupon " Capt. Bradford, (William) and the Treasurer, (Constant Southworth) were appointed to view the land desired by Bridgewater in reference to their enlargement according to their petition." The following grant was accordingly made : — " An additional grant made by the court of New Plymouth to the town of Bridgewater, AD., 1088. In reference to a former grant upon a petition presented to the court by Bridgewater, desiring their enlargement may extend to where the six miles extends that they purchased of the Indians by order from the court ; the court having granted unto the township of Bridge- water that they shall have six miles from the centre on the north side, if the line of the Colony hindereth not, and on the west side up to Taunton bounds, (now Raynham and Easton,) and on the south and south-easterly sides unto Titicut River, as far as the six miles extends ; and so likewise on the east side ; that is to say, the whole six miles from the centre east, west, north and south ; always provided that grants of lands formerly made by the court be not molested. It is also ordered, that as to those lands that are between Bridgewater and Namasket, (Mid- dleborough,) already granted, it shall be determined by the court unto what town they shall belong ; and that the Indians be not molested, notwithstanding this enlargement ; and that all these grants that arc within the six miles shall belong to the township of Bridgewater ; and that the said town of Bridge- water be careful to accommodate Mr. Keith, (their minister,) with a competency of land within the said grant of six miles." EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 17 This has been commonly called the "two miles additional grant," and the first one, the " old four mile grant." It would seem by this grant, as well as by Constant Southworth's deposi- tion, as if it were understood by the court, that the original purchase of the Indians had been only six miles each way, and not seven as the fact was. This, hoAvever, was so expressed in conformity with the new centre, which had been established' a mile or more farther west, leaving them not more than six miles on the west side, and on the east six miles would extend to, and even beyond the Major's purchase, so called, of which the great cedar swamp in Hanson constitutes a principal part, and which, being an earlier grant, was the utmost limit of their purchase on that side of the town. By this additional grant, therefore, they obtained their two miles on the north towards the Massa- chusetts Colony line, and a part on the south, but little, if any, on the east and west. On the south, the six miles would extend into the Indian settlement at Titicut, which the court reserved in all their subsequent adjacent grants. This reserve had been early made to the Titicut Indians, extending three miles on each side of the river. In the former account of Bridgewater, it is stated that the Indian plantation of Titicut was granted by Chickatabut, a Sachem of Massachusetts living at Neponsit. This is probably incorrect, as he died in 1633, of the small pox ; and Titicut, as we have already seen, was not established till after 1644, when it was spoken of as "being about to be erected." If granted at all, therefore, it must have been done by his son Josias Chickatabut or Wampatuck, who lived at Mattakeset, or Pembroke, and who went to the Mohawk country after 1666, and there died, and whose son Josiah gave a deed of confirmation of the Titicut purchase to Bridgewater in 1686, who had a son Jeremy, whose son, Charles Josiah, was the last of the race. If it was ever granted, or was anything more than a reserve, the limits were probably not very accurately defined ; as the court in their grants round about it required the grantees not to encroach or locate their lands "too near to Titicut," or to " molest the Indians." There seems to have been some uncertainty as to the precise limits of the respective jurisdic- tions of Massasoit and Chickatabut. We find on record the 3 18 HISTORY OF THE deposition of five Indians taken before Increase Nowell, John Eliot, and John Hoare in 1G50, as follows : — "We do all affirm, that Chickatabut's bounds did extend from Nishamagoguanett, near Duxbury mill, to Titicut, near Taunton, and to Nunckata- teset, (a pond in Bridgewater,) and from thence in a straight line to Wanamampuke, (Whiting's Pond in Wrentham,) which is the head of Charles River, this they do all solemnly affirm." Notwithstanding this, Massasoit as we have seen, sold and con- veyed the whole of the eight mile square, containing the princi- pal part of Bridgewater, and a part of Abington and Pembroke, all within the above limits, to Duxbury ; which corroborates a remark of Prince in his chronology, that "these Massachusetts Sachems were not completely independent, but acknowledged a degree of subjection to Massasoit." This Indian testimony favors the plea of Massachusetts, in the case pending between us and Rhode Island with regard to the line of jurisdiction, in which the great Wrentham Pond is claimed to be the southern- most part of Charles River, which claim is contested by Rhode Island. All the land on the north side of Titicut River was within the six miles, and Bridgewater were allowed afterwards to purchase it, and Nicholas Byram, Samuel Edson, and William Brett were appointed by the court for that purpose ; and the deed they procured is as follows : — " This deed, made November 20th, AD. 1672, witnesseth, that I, Pomponoho, alias Peter, an Indian, living at Titicut, in the colony of New Plymouth, in New England, have sold for the full sum of sixteen pounds, viz., six pounds of current money of New England, and ten pounds in good merchantable corn, as by bill appeareth, all the lands lying on the north side of Titicut River within the bounds of Bridgewater, what lands were mine, or were either my father's or grandfather's, or any otherwise conferred on me, excepting those lands expressed as follows, viz : — one hundred acres of land lying up the river to the eastward of small brook, given to an Indian called Charles, my brother-in-law, and a certain parcel of land lying against the wear, and bounded by the landing place, running to the head of my field, containing about ten acres at the utmost, I gay, I, the abovesaid Pomponoho, alias Peter, have bargained, EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEAVATER. 19 sold, and by these presents do bargain, and sell for myself, my heirs and assigns forever, unto Nicholas Byram, sen., Samuel Edson, sen., and William Brett, sen., in and for the use of the townsmen of Bridgewater, joint purchasers .with them, which persons above mentioned were ordered by the court to make purchase of those lands, as by court record appears, I say I have sold all these lands, with every part thereof, and all the immunities and privileges belonging thereunto to them, their heirs and assigns forever, the same quietly and peaceably to possess, without the lawful let, interruption, or molestation of me, the abovesaid Pomponoho, alias Peter, or other persons whatsoever lawfully claiming by, from, or under me, them, or any of them. In witness whereof I have here set to my hand and seal. his Read, sealed, and delivered POMPONOHO, (P.) It in presence of us, mark. Joseph Hay ward, John Cary, Sen." Acknowledged before Josiah Winslow, Gov., Feb. 20, 1676. Recorded by Nathaniel Clark, Secretary, March, 1685. The two reserved lots, in the above grant, were afterwards purchased by individuals in the town. Thus all the lands within the most extensive limits of the town appear to have been justly and fairly purchased of the Indians ; and we have the above named Governor Winslow's attestation on record, that this was the case in all the towns in the Old Colony of Plymouth. In the year 1685, the court of assistants were empowered to examine, allow, and confirm from time to time all claims and titles to land formerly granted either to towns or individuals by the general court, and, when allowed, they were to " pass the seal of the Government for confirmation." In pursuance of this order, all the grants made to Bridgewater as above stated and described, were confirmed by the following deed under the hand of Governor Hinckley, and the seal of the Government. " At his Majesty's Court of Assistants, held at Plymouth, the 6th of March, AD. 1685-6. To all to whom these presents shall come, Thomas Hinckley, 20 HISTORY OF THE Esq., Governor of his Majesty's Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, sendeth greeting. — Whereas, at his Majesty's general court held at Plymouth the 4th of June 1685, it was ordered and enacted, that the court of assistants be from time to time a committee empowered to examine, allow, and confirm all such claims and titles to lands, which were formerly granted or allowed by the general court, either to townships or particular persons ; which being allowed by the said committee, shall pass the seal of the Government for further confirmation thereof; and forasmuch as it hath been made to appear to the said court of assistants now sitting at Plymouth, the first Tuesday in March, 1685-6, that a certain tract of land was granted by William Bradford, Esq., and his associates assembled in court in the year of our Lord 1645, unto .the inhabitants of the town of Duxbury, (a competent proportion of lands,) about a place called by the Indians Massaquatucket, for a plantation for them the inhabitants of Duxbury, and that they shall have it four miles every way from the centre ; the inhabitants of Duxbury being fifty-six in number, by agreement among themselves, every one were to have equal shares, who, by the approbation and appointment of his Majesty's honored court in New Ply- mouth 1645, did employ Mr. Constant Southworth, with some others, to purchase the above mentioned tract of land of Ossa- mequin, chief Sachem of the Poconocket country, which being done, and now inhabited by many of the proprietors, is now called Bridgewater, and all such privileges allowed to them as the court allows or grants to other townships ; and having set up their centre, his Majesty's court held at Plymouth 1668, did grant to Bridgewater six miles from the centre on all four sides, where former grants made by the court hindereth not, as appears in court records, and is bounded out by the agents of each respective town adjoining, as appears by their hands to their agreement, and assented to and acknowledged before the Governor and his associates, sitting in his Majesty's court held at Plymouth, the 2d of March 1685-6, the bounds of the whole township being settled between them and other towns adjoining, are as followeth : — The bounds betwixt Bridgewater and Taunton being a heap of stones lying four miles west from EARLY SETTLEMENT OF RRIDGEAVATER. 21 the centre, and running north from station to station, till it meet with the line of the colonies ; and from said heap of stones south, to a heap of stones lying to the west of Unketest Pond, and from thence south-east unto a great white oak being marked with a T for Taunton, and on the north side with a B for Bridgewater ; and so from station to station till it come to the great river on the westward side of a spot of meadow, accord- ing to the agreement of the agents of both towns. And the bounds between Middleborough and Bridgewater is the great river, until it come to the north side of Mr. Standish's land, lying on the mouth of AVinnetuxit river, and so from the north side of said Standish's land until it meet with the eastermost line of Bridgewater, being a heap of stones four miles from the centre, which is the bounds between them and the Major's purchase, running from said heap of stones south and by west half a point westerly, until it meet Avith said Standish's land, &c, and from the aforesaid heap of stones running north north- east from station to station to four white oaks, the easternmost marked on all four sides, and so from station to station until it meet with the north line. The north bounds being six miles from the centre, to a company of small trees marked, being to the northward of a great rock, and from the aforesaid marked trees running east until it meet with the abovesaid north-east line, and from the aforementioned marked trees running west till it meet with the line of the colonies, and with the line of the colonies till it meet with the westerly line and Taunton (now Easton) bounds. All which lands, both upland and meadow, swamps, cedar swamps, ponds, rivers, brooks, springs, wood, underwood, and all herbage, feedings, minerals, Avith all rights, liberties, privileges, and appurtenances thereto belonging, unto the appropriated inhabitants and other proprietors, though not inhabitants of the said toAvn of BridgeAvater, according to each person's several and respective title or interest therein, except- ing tAvo-fifth parts of the royal mine, one fifth part to his royal Majesty, and the other fifth part to the President and Council. To have and to hold unto the said town and proprietors respect- ively, to their and every of their heirs and assigns forever, according to the tenor of our charter or letters patent granted 22 HISTORY OF THE by the honorable council at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ordering, and governing of New England, derivatory from his Majesty King James the first of happy memory ; and in testimony hereof, doth allow the public seal of the Government to be affixed thereunto for the further confirm- ation thereof. THOMAS HINCKLEY, Governor. «• Attest Nathaniel Clark, Secretary. A confirmation of the original purchase made of Ossamequin was also obtained about the same time, as follows : — " To all christian people to whom these presents shall come, Josiah Wampatuck sendeth, greeting. — Know ye, that I Josiah aforesaid, for and in consideration of ten pounds in money to me in hand paid, and one hundred acres of land lying on the upper end of Poor Meadow, on the lower side of a foot path that goeth to Scituate, lying on both sides of the river, doth confirm, establish, and ratify unto Samuel Edson, sen., Ensign John Haward, and John Willis, sen., in behalf of the purchasers and town of Bridgewater in New Plymouth Colony in New England, and to their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns forever, all that whole tract of land lying northward of the south four mile line of Bridgewater, which Ossamequin, Sachem of the Poconocket country, by the consent and appro- bation of his Majesty's general court held at Plymouth, in New England, in the year 1645, sold to the inhabitants of Duxbury, as appears by deed under Ossamequin's hand to Capt. Miles Standish, Mr. Constant Southworth, and Samuel Nash, as agents for the town of Duxbury. I, the abovesaid Josiah do ratify and confirm the above said sale of Ossamequin's, and bargain of lands belonging to Bridgewater, as uplands, swamps, meadows, brooks, rivers, ponds, timber, underwood, herbage, mines, with all commodities, benefits, privileges, immunities and appurte- nances whatever therein contained. I the abovesaid Josiah also do ratify, establish, and confirm, and forever make over all my right, title, and interest in the above mentioned land from me, my heirs, executors and assigns, unto the abovesaid Samuel Edson, John Haward, and John Willis, agents for the town of Bridgewater, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDCEWATER. 23 forever ; to have and to hold, occupy and enjoy, as their proper right, forever, without any claim, title, interest or molestation to be made by me, my heirs, executors, or assigns, or any other person or persons to any part or parcel thereof, in, by, or under me any way appertaining, and do by these presents bind myself, and heirs, and executors, and assigns, to maintain and defend the above mentioned sale of lands against any other Indian or Indians, that shall make any claim or title to any part or parcel thereof. In witness whereof, I have set to my hand and seal this twenty-third day of December, and in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James II, AD. one thou- sand six hundred and eighty-six. The mark of JOSIAH WAMPATUCK. A $• Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us : Acknowledged before John Soule, William Bradford, Joseph Barstow, Deputy Governor. Samuel Tinsley. December 23d, 1686. Recorded p. 425, Great Book of Records. Pr. Samuel Sprague, Recorder. The one hundred acres mentioned in the above confirmation were afterwards re-purchased by individuals in the town. From this deed it appears the greatest part of the town was twice purchased of the Indians, once of Massasoit, and again of Wampatuck, and a valuable consideration paid each time. By the boundaries of the town, as described in Governor Hinckley's deed of confirmation, it is evident a gore of land was still left on the north between Bridgewater and the line of the colonies, commencing at the point where the six mile line met the colony line towards the north-west corner of the town, and thence extending easterly to the north-east corner of the town, where the distance to the colony line is considerable. The westerly and narrow end of this gore, having been purchased of the Government after the union of the colonies, by Daniel Howard and Robert Howard, was on the petition of the select- men of the town, annexed to Bridgewater October 15th, 1730. These several grants and additions constituted all the territory 24 HISTORY OF THE ever belonging to Bridge water in its greatest extent. The greatest part of Abington, and what is now Hanson, at that period, belonged to Bridgewater, which must then have con- tained about ninety-six square miles. In this situation, and with these extensive territorial dimensions the town remained, without change or diminution, till June 10, 1712, when Abing- ton was incorporated. When the Abington petitioners first applied for an act of incorporation, July 4, 170G, they denominated themselves " cer- tain inhabitants of the east part of the town of Bridgewater, and proprietors of a certain tract of land between the towns of Weymouth, Hingham, Scituate, and Bridgewater ;" and when the act was finally passed in 1712, the boundaries were thus described. " On the north with the line of the colonies of the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth, — on the east upon the town of Scituate, — on the south with the line that is the southerly bounds of land of John Cushing, Esq., and of John dishing, Jr., Esq., — thence on the south-westerly side by certain bounds, which the town of Bridgewater have set and prefixed, to Beaver Brook, — and on the west with the said brook, until it comes to the extent of Bridgewater northward : together with a small gore of land lying between the said town of Bridgewater and the said line of the colonies : the town of Bridgewater having signified their consent thereto." By the plain and express language of the statute, the whole gore is included in Abington; but for some reasons now unknown, the " Howard Farms" seem, as the selectmen of Bridgewater in their petition stated, to have been considered as " belonging to no town," till they were annexed to Bridgewater in 1730. Another considerable tract on the east part of the town was annexed to Pembroke June 7, 1754, and now constitutes the greater part of Hanson. The old Bridgewater line was as far east as the west line of the farm formerly owned and occupied by the late Rev. Dr. Hitchcock. These two are the only in- stances in which any considerable portions of the town have been annexed to other corporations. Questions and disputes as to boundaries were formerly frequently arising between this and neighboring towns. The latest occurred with Middleborough, EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 25 which was finally settled hy court June 8, 1716, when the great river was constituted the boundary between them. This seems to have been done in pursuance of the express power which the court had reserved to itself in the "two mile additional grant." The boundaries of the town as finally settled, may be thus described : — On the east it is bounded by Halifax and Hanson ; on the north by Abington, Randolph, and Stoughton ; on the west by Easton and Raynham ; and on the south by Middle- borough, Titicut river there constituting the boundary. It is the north-west town in the county of Plymouth, adjoining the county of Norfolk, or Old Colony line on the north, and the county of Bristol on the west. Its dimensions may be estimated at about twelve miles by six, and as containing at least seventy square miles. The centre of the town is about twenty-six miles from Boston, twenty from Plymouth, and ten from Taunton. SETTLEMENT, DIVISIONS, AND PROPRIETORS. Bridgewater was the first interior settlement in the Old Colony. The grant of the "plantation, as we have seen, was made in 1645, but the actual settlement was not commenced till after 1650. Each settler had at first a grant of a house lot of six acres on the town river, then called Nuckatest or Nuncke- tetest, an Indian name in close affinity with that of the pond from which it flows, now called Nippenicket, formerly written Neapnucket or Neapnuncket. The first lots were taken up in West Bridgewater, and the first houses built, and first improve- ments made there ; and the settlement was called after the name of the river, Nuncketest, or Nunckety, sometimes Unkety. These Indian names were variously written in the early records and documents. We have seen that in Governor Hinckley's deed of confirmation, the pond itself is called Unketest. The plantation bore the more general appellation of Satucket. These house lots were contiguous, and the settlement compact, with a view to mutual aid when common protection and defence against the Indians should be required, and extended on each side of 4 26 HISTORY OF THE the river, from where Seth Lothrop lately lived, clown to John- son's four corners, a little easterly of where Capt. Rider now lives. The proprietors or original purchasers, whose names have already been given were fifty-four in number, and were all inhabitants of Duxbury, excepting William Bradford, about whom there are some doubts. He is supposed to have been the son of the Governor and afterwards Deputy Governor. He lived in Kingston, near the line of Duxbury, and owned land in Duxbury, and, as it is said, attended meeting there. He was about twenty years old when the grant was made, but before the actual settlement of it, he was over twenty-six, and when the town was incorporated was over thirty.. These were probably house holders, or heads of families ; many of them were so certainly, and probably all. Deacon Samuel Edson, from Salem, was an early settler in the new plantation, and built the first mill in the place ; and the Rev. James Keith, from Scotland, was their first minister ; and the proprietors gave to each of them one share, making the whole number of shares fifty-six, as has been before stated. Of these proprietors, not more than one third actually removed and became inhabitants of the new plantation. The rest from time to time conveyed their shares to their sons, or sold them to others, who became residents there. The follow- ing original purchasers became permanent settlers, viz : — Thomas Hayward, John Cary, Nathaniel Willis, Samuel Tompkins, John Willis, Arthur Harris, William Bassett, John Fobes, John Washburn, Experience Mitchell, John Washburn, Jr., John Haward, John Ames, Solomon Leonard, Thomas Gannett, Mr. James Keith, William Brett, Dea. Samuel Edson. None of these, except Bassett and Mitchell, were among the Plymouth " Old Comers" or Forefathers, who arrived in the three first ships, viz : — the May Flower, the Fortune, and the Ann ; nor is it ascertained at what time they came over ; but it is certain they were here very early. The names of most of them appear on the colony records soon after 1630. In 1629 EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 27 thirty-five of the Ley den people, with their families, arrived at Plymouth : and in IG30, sixty more came. Many of the Bridge- water proprietors were doubtless among these. The plantation was incorporated into a separate and distinct town in June 1656, by the following concise and laconic order of court, agreeably to the usage of those early times : — " Ordered, that henceforth Duxbury New Plantation be al- lowed to be a township of itself, distinct from Duxbury, and to be called by the name of Bridgewater ; provided that all public rates be borne by them in equal proportions :" and the same year this proportion was settled by the court, by the following order : — " The court have agreed that for the present year the town of Bridgewater is to bear one part of three with Duxbury, of their proportion of the country rates for the officers' wages and other public charges." And by a tax assessed about that time, it appears that Duxbury accordingly paid £6, 0, 9, and Bridgewater £2, 0, 3. The plantation in some early records had been called Bridgewater before its incorporation. The name was probably adopted from fancy, as many of the names of towns in the vicinity were, none of the settlers here, as we can ascertain, having come from Bridgewater, in England. From this period the town took its place with others in the public records, while its own have also been generally well pre- served, which will render its subsequent history more authentic. John Cary was chosen Constable 1656, the first officer ever chosen in town, and the only one in that year, as it was not incorporated in season for the spring elections. In May, 1657, the town officers were John Willis, Deputy ; Lawrence Willis, Grand Juror ; Samuel Tompkins, Constable ; Arthur Harris and John Havvard, Surveyors of highways. The first freemen Avere William Brett, Ens. Josiah Standish, William Bassett, John Cary, Thomas Hayward, Lawrence Willis, JonN Willis, Thomas Hayward, Jr., Samuel Tompkins", Arthur Harris. 28 HISTORY OF THE These had taken the Freeman's oath probably before the incor- poration of the plantation. In 1G57 we find among the freemen of Bridgewater, these additional names, viz : — Samuel Edson, Mark Lathrop, Francis Godfrey, William Snow, John Ames, John Haward. Guido Bayley, These names assist us in ascertaining who were the first settlers in the place. Some of them, as Standish, Lawrence Willis, Godfrey, Bayley, Lathrop, and Snow, were not original propri- etors, but most of them came from Duxbury, and had afterwards probably became purchasers. Josiah Standish was the second son of Capt. Miles Standish, and had his father's share perhaps ; he married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen, of Braintree, and settled here, but after a few years returned again to Duxbury. Besides these and a few others from Duxbury, as Mitchell, Alden, and Leonard ; there soon came in several families from the adjoining towns in Massachusetts, as Packard, Byram, Allen, Whitman, Shaw, Bacon, Kingman, Conant, Hooper, Hudson, Lazell, Dunbar, Hill, Perkins, Johnson, Leach, and others, as also Field from Providence, Alger from Taunton, Snell from England, Latham from Marshfield, and others from different parts of the country. We have been told that, before the two colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts were united into one Province in 1691, and long after, a distinction was kept up in the town between the old Duxbury settlers and the Massachusetts settlers, each viewing the other, in some measure, asNa separate race or clan. We never learnt, however, that it produced any unkindness or even unsocial habits, feelings of friendship and mutual courtesy having been generally observed and cherished among them. From the west the settlements extended first into the south part of the town, towards the great pond on the road to Taun- ton, with which place they held their principal intercourse, where was the nearest corn mill, and whither also they were accustomed to go frequently on foot, with their grists on their backs. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BKIDGEWATER. 20 Their proprietary concerns were managed in town meetings in the same way their other town affairs were conducted, and all the records and votes respecting their lands were entered by the town clerk in the town books. This was owing no doubt to the fact, that every inhabitant was at first a purchaser or proprietor. The -first separate or distinct meeting held by the proprietors, of which we find any account, was July 9, 1672, at which they chose a large committee " to consider the manner to be adopted in future for laying out lands, and to report in October next ;" and the same year application was made to court stating, that " some of the committee formerly appointed for laying out their lands, were dead, and others taken off by other occasions, and praying that they might depute some among themselves for that purpose," and the court " declared their willingness that they might so do, and in case the proprietors shall agree upon any thing respecting their lands, that the clerk of the town shall commit such their conclusions to the records of the town ;" and consequently the clerk of the town was also generally clerk of the proprietors. The town also in 1674 " ordered that a new book for the recording of lands should be procured, and a com- mittee appointed to see that the records were made and transcribed correctly, and on good evidence." Again in June 14, 1695. They " agreed that the town clerk should record, all, that was of general concern to the purchasers, in their new book, namely, the preface, table, list of their names, court grants, several divisions of lands granted to be laid out by them, their general deeds of the Indians, and confirmations from the court, and lists of the names of the proprietors of all their land within their township, and to page said book. Chose also Lieut. Hayward and John Field to have some oversight of the recording of lands for the purchasers and proprietors." Hence it is that the same records sometimes appear on different books, having been transcribed agreeably to the aforesaid orders. The outermost mile of the " old original four mile grant," that is, one mile in width all round on the outside of the purchase, was laid out in 1683 into four great divisions, one on each side of the town, and the shares in each were drawn by lot, by the original fifty-six proprietors, namely seventeen on the north, fifteen on 30 HISTORY OF THE the east, fourteen on the west, and ten on the south ; and the proprietors in each division were authorised to lay out their lands among themselves in such manner as they saw fit. The following extract with regard to this proceeding are taken from the town records : — "The purchasers being generally met together upon this 24th of December, 1683, it was then proposed to them the laying out of great divisions of land to every purchaser round the outside of the town in the four miles, or fourth mile from the centre ; and it was to be done by casting of lots for them. After some agitation about it silence was desired, and this proposition was publicly and openly there propounded twice, and after proposal they were desired to declare their assent to it by their usual way of holding up their hands, which was done, and the major part by many, did declare their assent to it. The order of this division of land is, that it should be laid out a mile inward in breadth from the four miles square from the centre, and what- soever purchaser in Bridgewater having any former lots of land laid out within this fourth mile should not be molested by this great division. Further, the order of this great division is, that there should be ten on the south side of the town, and fourteen on the west, and seventeen on the north, and fifteen on the east side ; and every purchaser was to have his division of land as it fell to him by lot, the lots being drawn. Their names and lots are in order as followreth. Those, whose lots fell out on the north, were to begin at the west at the line betwixt Taunton (now Easton) and Bridgewater, and to run seven miles east in length, and one mile in breadth from the north line southward. Names of the' Men of the North. Robert Latham, Mr. Nathaniel "Willis, Nicholas Byram, )„, Samuel Packard, Nicholas Byram, S Mark Lathrop, Joseph Alden, Guido Bayley, William Bassett, Samuel Edson, Jr., John Cary, Giles Leach, Joseph Hayward, Joseph Wadsworth, EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 31 Widow (of Sam'l.) Wads- Widow (of John) Robbins, worth, — 17 lots. " John Willis, Jr., " And from the extent of this seven miles of those on the north, those on the east are to begin on the north line, and to run a line due south till it meets with Mr. Alexander Standish's land, or Middleborough (now Halifax) bounds. All the lands lying easterly betwixt the above said line so run, and the line that was run by the agents of Bridgewater and Middleborough, (now Halifax,) and the Major's purchase, (now Hanson,) be- longeth to these fifteen men whose names and lots as they fell out are in order as followeth : — The names of the Men on the East. Nicholas Bvram, Jr., John Ames, John Hayward, Nathaniel Hayward, Ens. (John) Haward, John Washburn, ) George Turner, John Washburn, ' Mr. (James) Keith, Widow (Samuel,) Wads- Samuel Packard, worth, Benjamin Willis, Nathaniel Packard. Josiah Edson, — 15 lots. " Edward Fobes, "And those fourteen on the west are to begin at the end of the mile in breadth at the north end, and to run along in the line betwixt Taunton, (now Easton and Raynham,) and Bridge- water, till it meet with a cove in the pond that cuts the line betwixt Taunton, (now Raynham,) and Bridgewater ; and are to have a mile in breadth inward from the west fine, as those have upon the north line, except it be against the great meadow. Their Lots and Names are as followeth : — Thomas Whitman, Dea. John Willis, Samuel Allen, John Washburn, William Brett, Joseph Wadswoth, Jonathan Hill, Widow Faxon, (formerly to. Thomas Snell, of Thomas Gannett,) 32 history of the William Snow, Elisha Hayward, William Orcutt, Dea. Samuel Edson." Joseph Bassett, " And the ten on the south are to begin at Taunton, (now Raynham,) line, and to run east till it meet with the great river for length, and is to be a mile in breadth inward, as it is on the north. Their Names and Lots, as they toere drawn forth, are as folloioeth : — Isaac Harris, John Washburn, John Whitman, Joseph Edson, Lt. (Thomas) Hayward, James Cary, Samuel Tompkins, John Field. Samuel Leonard, — ten in all. " Lawrence Willis, Of these persons, whose names are contained in these four divisions, it appears, that John Washburn at this time owned four lots, and of course, four proprietary shares, Nicholas By- ram two, Joseph Wadsworth two, Widow Wadsworth two, and Samuel Packard two ; and all the rest one share each. They were all inhabitants of the town except the Wadsworths, who retained their shares much longer than any of the non-residents, and were the last of the Duxbury proprietors to relinquish them. At this period forty-nine persons owned the entire original grant. The inner three miles were never allotted, but still remained in common, as the whole had done before, to be occasionally laid out as their interest or necessities might require. When any of the common lands were appropriated and allowed to be taken up by individuals, it was done by what they called a division or grant. These grants were from time to time made of a certain number of acres to a share, which each proprietor was entitled to pitch and to have laid out to him by the locating committee ; which, being done and recorded on the proprietors' books, cre- ated a perfect title in such proprietor. Any person, not a pro- prietor, finding common land, might purchase a right of any proprietor, who had not taken up his full quantity upon any of EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATEK. 33 the existing grants, and procure to himself a title to it in the same way. Instances of common land having been found and thus taken up, have occurred even down to the present time. The following is a table of these grants in the order of time in which they were made, next after the house lots of six acres already mentioned : — 1C51— 20 acres, 1654—20 " 1st div. -24r ofj meadow, ) 1657 — 50 acres, „ _ 2d. div. of) meadow, j 1665 — 3d division of ) meadow, j 1665 — 10 acres, 1666—20 " 1672—50 " 1683—10 " 1683 — cedar swamp, 1686 — 10, swamp or meadow land, 1686 — 40 wood land, 1687—50 1690—10 Februa- ry 19th, March 27th, 1693—10 acres, 1695- 1699- 1700 — the share land, 1712—10 « 1717—10 " 1724—20 " 1726—20 Februa- ry 7th, May 31, 1731—10 Mar. 14,1739—10 Jan. 28, 1745—10 May 12, 1746— 10 Apl. 11,1748— 10 Apl. 17, 1749— 10 Februa- ry 11th, Apl. 14, 1755—10 1751—10 March 23d. Februa- ry 11th, All the lands obtained by the additional two mile grant, or six miles from the centre every way, including the lands at Titicut, contained in the deed from Pomponoho, were divided into lots and drawn by the proprietors in 1783. They were subdivided in the first place into four parcels or tracts, three on the north and one on the south. That on the south was called "the Titicut purchase." Those on the north were variously designated : the three miles at the west end were called the "West Shares ;" the next, or middle division, was called the " easterly three miles ;" and the most easterly one was called the "young men's shares." These divisions all appear on the pro- prietors' records, with the names of those to whom the lots respectively fell. The Titicut purchase was shared and divided agreeably to the following vote 1675. " All the householders and male children twenty years old and upwards, now found to 5 34 HISTORY 01' THE be sixty-four in number, shall be proprietors and full purchasers in the lands at Titicut, which had been bought of the Indians ;" but the division was not actually made, and the lots drawn, till some years afterwards, viz : 1C85, and consisted of two divisions of lots called the great lots and the little lots. Those who had the young men's shares above mentioned, were such as were twenty-one years of age and upward, and had no interest in any other lands, who were Samuel Lathrop, Mark Lathrop, Jr., Edward Lathrop, James Haward, Jonathan Haward, Nathaniel Brett, Jonathan Cary, Isaac Alden, John Whitman, John Al- dridge, Jonathan Hill, Samuel Shiverick, William Snow, Jr., Benjamin Willis, Richard Holt, Solomon Leonard, James La- tham, Samuel Leach, Joseph Snow, Samuel Allen, Jr. — The following is an early list of the proprietors, with the number of shares each owned, viz : — No. of Shares. No, of Shares. Nicholas Byram, 5 Mark Lathrop, John Washburn, 4 Peter Thatcher, Samuel Edson, 3 George Partridge > A Samuel Packard, 2 Nathaniel Willis, Thomas Hayward, 2 Mr James Keith, Thomas Whitman, 2 George Turner, Samuel Wadsworth, 2 John Field, Joseph Wadsworth, 2 Michael Bacon, John Cary, Matthew Gannett, 1 John Haward, Samuel Tompkins, John Hayward, Thomas Hayward, Jr., 1 William Brett, William Bassett, John Willis, Joseph Bassett, Nathaniel Hayward i *■ Solomon Leonard,. Lawrence Willis, ) John Wjllis, Jr., J John Robbins, Joseph Alden, Giles Leach, Thomas Snell, John Ames, Samuel Allen, John Cary, Jr., Robert Latham, Edward Fobes, William Orcutt, William Snow, Bent a ^Tr - EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 35 All these, except the Wadsworths, Thatcher, Gannett, and Partridge, were residents in the town at this period, which was as early at least as 1680. But shares were frequently nought and sold, and the proprietors of course often changing. The Town Clerks have been John Gary from 1656 to 1681. Thomas Hayward, Esq., appears to have made the entries in 1682 & 1683. Samuel Allen was Clerk from 1783 to 1702. Nathaniel Brett " " 1702 to 1736. Nathaniel Brett, Jr. " " 1736 to 1779, excepting that Col. Josiah Edson was Clerk a few years previous to 1745. Capt. Eliakim Howard " " 1779 to 1822, when the town was divided. The. first military officers were Josiah Standish, Lieutenant, 1660, who soon after returned to Duxbury, and Thomas Hay- ward, Jr., Lieutenant ; and John Haward, Ensign, appointed 1664. And in 1689 they were promoted, and Samuel Packard appointed Ensign. — Deacon John Willis was appointed to admin- ister oaths, &c, in 1660, but Captain Thomas Hayward, Jr., was the first Magistrate in town, and one of the Governor's Council or Assistants 1690, and also a Judge of the courts : he was killed by a fall from his horse, August 15, 1698, while on a journey to Marshfield on business. — Elihu Brett was the next Magistrate, and he was also appointed a Judge of the courts 1700; he died suddenly in his chair January 12th, 1712. The first House of Representatives or Deputies in the Old Plymouth Colony convened in 1639. From June 3, 1656, the date of the incorporation of the town, to the year 1691 inclusive, when the two colonies were united into one province, the Rep- resentatives from Bridgewater to the general court at Plymouth, appear in the following order : — 1657 John Willis, to 1681 Thomas Hayward, to 1661 William Brett, ,^.-> Thomas Hayward &. \ to 1666 John AVillis, John Haward, ) . -,0~0 John Willis and ) 1684 Thomas Hayward, to 16/6 > Samuel Edson, ' 1687 ) None. Andros' Ad- 1677 John Willis, &. 1688 ' ministration. 36 HISTORY OF THE 1689 Thomas Hayward & William Brett, 2d. 1C90 William Brett, 1691 Josiah Edson. From 1691 the Representatives to the General Court of Massachusetts, are as follows : — irqo Josiah Edson and ) David Perkins, > 1693 Samuel Allen, 1694 David Perkins, 1695 Elihu Brett, 1696 David Perkins, 1697 Samuel Edson, 1698 Josiah Edson, to 1700 Elihu Brett, 1701 None.— 1702 Edward Fobes, to 1704 David Perkins, to 1707 William Brett, 1708 Edward Fobes, to 1710 Joseph Hayward, 1711 Edward Fobes, to 1713 Samuel Edson, 1714 Josiah Edson, 1715 Edward Fobes, 1716 John Field, to 1719 Richard Davenport, Richard Davenport ) &. Benjamin Snow, ' 1722 Edward Fobes, 1723 Ephraim Haward, 1724 Richard Davenport, 1725 Thomas Ames, 1726 Joseph Keith, 1727 Isaac Johnson, Isaac Johnson and ) John Alden, ' Isaac Johnson and ) to 1721 to 1729 1730 Nehem'h. Washburn, ' 1731 Isaac Johnson, to 1734 John Holman, 1735 Josiah Edson, 2d., to 1737 John Holman, 1738 Ebenezer Byram, 1739 Josiah Edson, to 1741 Ebenezer Byram, 1742 Nehemiaii Washburn, 1743 Josiah Edson, 1744 John Holman, 1745 Josiah Edson, 1746 Josiah Edson, 3d, to 1748 Daniel Howard, to 1750 Josiah Edson, to 1755 Daniel Howard, to 1766 Josiah Edson, to 1769 Edward Mitchell, to 1771 Josiah Edson, 1772 Daniel Howard, 1773 Josiah Edson, 1774 ) Edward Mitchell & 1775 ' Richard Perkins were delegates to the Provincial Congress at Salem, Con- cord, and Cambridge. '1776 Edward Mitchell, Hugh Orr, Eliphalet Cary, Nath'l. Reynolds, Oakes AnGier and Thomas Hooper. 1777 Edward Mitchell &. Nath'l. Reynolds, EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 37 1778 Nathan Mitchell & Oakes Angier, 1779 Oakes Angier &. Josiah Hayden, 17S0 Nathan Mitchell & David Kingman, 1781 Nathan Mitchell, 1782 Hugh Orr, 1783 Nathan Mitchell, to 1785 Nathan Mitchell &. Elisha Mitchell, 1786 Daniel Howard, 2d, 1787 Elisha Mitchell, to 1790 James Thomas, 1791 Simeon Dunbar, 1792 Beza Hayward, 1793 Daniel Snow, to 1795 Beza Hayward, 1796 Daniel Snow, to 1798 Nahum Mitchell, to 1803 Daniel Snow, to 1806 Daniel Mitchell, to 1808 William Baylies, Benjamin Willis and Nathan Mitchell were delegates to the convention at Cambridge for forming the Constitution of this Commonwealth, in September, 1779. — Daniel Howard, Elisha Mitchell, Hezekiah Hooper and Daniel Howard 2d, were the delegates to the convention of this State, at Boston, for adopt- ing the constitution of the United States in 1788. The counties in the Old Colony of Plymouth were formed and established in 1685. The Senators for the county of Ply- mouth, elected from Bridgewater, were for 1785 and 1786, Hugh Orr ; for 1787, Nathan Mitchell ; from 1788 to 1794, inclusive, Daniel Howard ; from 1796 to 1S05, Beza Hayward ; for 1813 and 1814, Nahum Mitchell. The members of Congress from Bridgewater have been the Rev. Dr. John Reed, Nahum Mitchell, William Baylies, and Aaron Hobart. Note.— When 2d or 3d is affixed above to any name it means only that it is the 2d or 3d person of that name, who has represented the town. 1809 Nahum Mitchell, 1810 Daniel Mitchell, to 1812 Nahum Mitchell, William Baylies, Ezra Kingman, Gideon Howard, Daniel Crane, Caleb Cary. 1813 Daniel Howard, Gideon Howard, Daniel Crane, Nathan Mitchell, 2d., Abiezer Alger. 1814 Daniel Howard, to 1816 Daniel Howard, Bartholomew Brown, Ezra Kingman, Abiezer Alger, Noah Fearing, Caleb Howard. 1817 Daniel Howard, to 1S20 William Baylies, 1821 Hector Orr. 38 HISTORY OF THE PHILIP S WAR. Many of the earlj settlers of Bridgewater were young men, bom in this country, well acquainted with the Indian character, and therefore well calculated to encounter the troubles and dangers of the savage warfare they were soon to experience. In Philip's war, so called, which commenced early in 1675, they displayed great courage and intrepidity. Being wholly an inte- rior settlement, remote from their friends on the sea-board, *' they were strongly urged to desert their dwellings, and repair to the towns by the sea-side." They however resolutely kept their ground, and defended their settlement, and encouraged and assisted other towns to do the same. They erected a stockade or garrison on the south side of the river, and also fortified many of their dwelling houses. At the commencement of hostilities, June 21, 1675, seventeen of their number, " well armed and furnished with horses, the first that were on the march in all the country," went to Metapoiset, a small settlement about twelve miles from Swansey, "to strengthen the garrison at that place." They were met by people from Swansey, driven from their habitations and filled with terror, who advised them to return ; but they fearlessly pursued their course and accom- plished their object. They were in many perils while there, but returned safe after the greatest part of the garrison, consist- ing of seventy persons, most of whom were women and children, were safely conducted on to Rhode Island. Six persons of that vicinity, who were killed at that time, while they were with their teams conveying their corn into the garrison, were the first that fell in that war. April 9, 1676, the enemy burnt a house and barn in the east part of the town. The following extract from a letter of the Rev. Mr. Keith to Thomas Hinckley thus alludes to it : — " April 17, 1676. God hath now begun to pour out upon us the cup of trembling ; yet the Lord doth remember us still with mercy, yea very great mercy. The 9th of this instant, being the Lord's Day, as we were assembling in the forenoon, we were EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 39 alarmed by the shooting of some guns from some of our garri- sons upon discovery of a house being on fire, which was Robert Latham's; his dwelling house and barn are wholly consumed. The house was deserted but a few days before. He had consid- erable loss in lumber. The corn and chief of his goods were saved. There were divers other out-houses rifled at the same time, but no more burnt. There was a horse, or two, killed ; three or four carried away ; and some few swine killed. We sent out a party of men on the Lord's Day night upon discovery, who found their trackings. Our men judged there might be about ten of them. They followed them by their tracks several miles, but having no provision, they were forced to leave the pursuit. We are in expectation every day of an assault here. The Lord prepare us for our trial." May 8th, about three hundred Indians with Tispaquin for their leader, made another assault on the east end of the village on the south side of the river, and set fire to many of the houses ; but the inhabitants issuing from their garrison houses,, fell upon them so resolutely, that the enemy were soon repelled ; and a heavy shower of rain falling at the same time, the fires were soon extinguished. The attack was then renewed on the north side of the river, but it was soon defeated, and the next morning the enemy entirely disappeared, after having burnt two houses and one barn. On these several occasions thirteen houses and. four barns only were burnt, and but five of these were in the village ; the rest were on the borders of the settle- ment and deserted at the time. Excepting the garrison houses, it is said, every house but one in town was burnt. These were probably the out dwellings only on the skirts, and not in the village, where the houses were all in some measure fortified. The house excepted is said to have been Nicholas Byram's, which was in the east, where Capt. Isaac Whitman lately lived, and quite remote from the principal settlement. The following is an extract from an ancient manuscript, of which Comfort Willis, who then held the office of " Town Trooper," is supposed to have been the author : — " On Saturday, Capt. (Thomas) Hayward, Sergeant (Samuel Jr.) Packard, John Willis, and Isaac Harris, went out to see if 40 HISTORY OF THE the Indians were coming clown upon them, and they saw an Indian, which made them think the enemy was at hand ; and they immediately pressed Comfort Willis and Joseph Edson to go post to the Governor the same day at night to tell him of it. And he went to Plymouth with them the next day, to send Capt. Church with his company. And Capt. Church came with them to Monponset on the Sahbath, and came no further that day ; and he told them he would meet them the next day. And Com- fort Willis and Joseph Edson came home at night and told their friends of it, and Ensign (John) Haward, Samuel Edson, Josiah Edson, Joseph Edson, John Washburn, Samuel Washburn, Thomas Washburn, John Field, Nicholas Byram, Samuel Allen, Samuel Allen, Jr., John Gordon, John Hayward, John Pack- ard, John Ames, Comfort Willis, Guido Bailey, Nathaniel Hayward, John Whitman, John Packard and Samuel Leach went out on Monday, supposing to meet with Captain Church ; but they came upon the enemy, and fought with them, and took seventeen of them alive and also much plunder. And they all returned, and not one of them fell by the enemy, and received no help from Church." The following extract of a letter from Gov. Josiah Winslow to Thomas Hinckley was written about the same time : — "May 23, 1676. Last Saturday, 4 o'clock P. M., a second post came from Bridgewater, and informed they had discovered about one hundred of the enemy at Titicut, very busy killing cattle and horses, as if they intended some stay there ; and Taunton and Bridgewater had agreed in the night to advance towards them in the morning; and requested a few men from us if possible. The warning was very short, yet we obtained from Plymouth, Duxbury, and Marshfield about forty smart lads and sent to Bridgewater that night, but have not as yet heard of, or from them. They knew of your intended march, and if they miss of those Indians they may very probably meet with yours to range toward Seconet. Mr. Church will inform you what I have written to Rhode Island." There was also a skirmish with the enemy near the great river in the south part of the town, July 31, 1676, when some of Philip's "special friends" EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGE WATER. 41 were killed, and among others his uncle, who fell by his side. Had the soldier known " which had been the right bird," as Hubbard says in his narrative, Philip himself might have fallen, and the war thus have been brought to a more speedy and less disastrous result ; but " the cunning fox escaped them for that time." John Ames and Nicholas Byram are said to have dis- tinguished themselves on that occasion. Capt. Church joined them the next day and pursued the enemy till the 3d of August, when, "having no provision but what they took from the enemy, they hastened to Bridgewater, sending an express before to provide for them, their company being now very numerous, having killed and taken one hundred and seventy-three. The gentlemen of Bridgewater met Capt. Church with great expressions of honor and thanks, and received him and his army with all due respect and kind treatment." The prisoners were conveyed into the town pound at night, and an Indian guard set over them. " They were well treated with victuals and drink, and had a merry night ; and the prisoners laughed as loud as the soldiers, not having been so well treated before for a long time." The next day Capt. Church arrived safe at Plymouth with all his prisoners. Amidst danger, and often actually assaulted in their dwellings, it is remarkable that during the whole of that war, in which from time to time great numbers were .engaged, not one of the inhabitants of Bridgewater were killed. All the narratives of that conflict speak of the town as fortunate and highly favored in this respect, while they unite in ascribing to the inhabitants high praise for their courage and activity in the service. John Snell, who was killed at the Isle aux Noix on Lake Champlain in the French war in 1760, was the first inhabitant of the town that ever fell in battle ; and Capt. Jacob Allen and Abner Rob- inson, who were killed at Saratoga at the capture of Burgoyne during the war of the American Revolution, in 1777, were the next. Gideon Washburn was killed at sea about the same time. Hubbard informs us that "in June, 1676, (it was 1675) a man and woman were slain by the Indians at Dartmouth ; and that another woman was taken ; but, because she had kept an Indian 42 HISTORY OF THE child before, so much kindness was shewn her as that she was sent back, after they had dressed her wounds ; and the Indians guarded her till she came within sight of the English." The man and woman alluded to were probably Jacob Mitchell and his wife ; and Dorothy Hayward, who afterwards gave the fol- lowing deposition, was probably the woman who was made a prisoner, and treated with such exemplary humanity ; — "Dorothy Hay ward, aged 30 years or thereabouts, being engaged upon oath testifieth, that she being taken by the Indians in June, in the year 1675, in Dartmouth, in Plymouth Colony saith, William Palmer was slain by the Indians, and Jacob Mitchell and his wife, and John Pope. This deponent saw these Indians, Ponoho, Watanom, John Bryant, Nenpos, Potak, Tosa- nem. These be the names of them that we know to be in being. No further this deponent saith. — Taken before me upon oath, JOSEPH CLARK, Assistant. Newport, R. I., June 25, 1G77." During the American Revolution, Bridgewater was firm and patriotic, entering heartily into the struggle, and bearing her full proportion of its burdens. Those who fell in battle were not numerous, and some of the principal names have been already given. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. The first settlements having been in the west parish, the first church was of course formed there, and although social worship on the Sabbath had not probably been omitted or at all neg- lected, yet having been few in number and feeble in substance, they were at first unable to maintain a minister, and, by thus forming themselves into a regular church, enjoy the full benefit of the christian institutions. In this situation they remained from 1651 to 1664, a period of a little more than twelve years. They had in the mean time employed a Mr. Bunker, to preach as a candidate, and made him an offer of settlement, which EARLY SETTLEMENT OF B1UDGEWATER. 43 however for some reason not appearing on the records did not take place. They also as early as 1661, agreed and voted to build a house for a minister, who should be called to settle among them, and to give him also an entire purchase right in the townsbip. Feb. 18, 1664, the settlement of the Rev. James Keith, their first ordained minister, is recorded, and the terms of it particu- larly expressed. He is there called " a student in divinity, having some competent time improved his gifts amongst them in the work of the ministry, and having also due approbation by the testimony of tbe Rev. Elders of other churches of Christ, to whom he was known." He was a Scotchman, educated at Aberdeen, and probably came to Boston about the year 1662, and was introduced to the church at Bridgewater by Dr. Increase Mather, whom he always esteemed as his patron and best friend. In the second preface to the " Bridgewater's Monitor," the first having been written by Increase and Cotton Mather, it is said, Bridgewater had not an ordained minister till 1663. This had reference to the old style, probably, when the year commenced on the 25th of March. The terms of his settlement were liberal ; a double house lot of twelve acres with a house built thereon, and a purchase right, so called, being a fifty-sixth part of the original grant ; £40 annual salary, £20 to be paid at Boston in money, and the other half at home. In 1667 they gave him an additional grant of thirty cords of wood annually, " the cutters of the wood to have five groats, and the drawers seven groats a cord." In 1681 they raised it from £40 to £50, £20 to be paid at Boston in money, and £30 at home in corn and provisions. In 1689 they agreed to allow him £10 in corn in lieu of his thirty cords of wood. He died July 23, 1719, se. 76, of course was about 21 when he was ordained. Mather, in the Magnalia, places him in the third class, " who were all such ministers as came over after the re-establishment of the Episcopal church government in England, and the conse- quent persecution of the non-conformists." This must have been a mistake, as Mr. Keith was from Scotland, and besides could not have been a minister before he came over, being very young and but a student whe"n he arrived. The text he selected 44 HISTORY OF THE for his first sermon was from Jeremiah 1, 6. " Behold I cannot speak ; for I am a child." The Lord however indeed encour- aged him, " and put his words into his mouth," and he proved a worthy man and faithful shepherd over his infant and feeble flock. His advice and influence with the civil authorities of the colony were also considerable. In the case of the capture of Philip's wife and son, when the question as to what should be done with the son was in agitation, and the opinion of grave divines desired, Mr. Keith's opinion, stated in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Cotton, in favor of mercy, and differing from most others, had great weight, if indeed it was not decisive on the occasion. The boy's life was spared, and with his mother he was sent out of the country, and probably to the Bermudas. The letter follows, and is well worthy of a place here. «« October 30, 1676. I long to hear what becomes of Philip's wife and his son. I know there is some difficulty in that Psalm 137, S. 9, though I think it may be considered, whether there be not some speciality and somewhat extraordinary in it. That law, Deut. 24. 16, compared with the commended example of Amazias, 2d Chron., 25. 4, doth sway much with me in the case under consideration. I hope God will direct those whom it doth concern to a good issue. Let us join our prayers at the throne of grace with all our might, that the Lord would so dispose of all public motions and affairs, that his Jerusalem in this wilder- ness may be the habitation of justice, and the mountain of holiness, that so it may be also a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down." He preached the sermon at the dedication of the new meeting house in South Bridgewater in 1717, two years only before his death, which was printed in the " Bridgewater's Monitor," and which contains some pertinent and impressive remarks on the subject of intemperance even at that early period. " Besides other evils," said he, " which might be mentioned, I would refer particularly to that of intemperance, the excessive and prodigious expense upon strong drink, above all, that of rum ; I say, the scandalous and horrible abuse of rum, which threatens ruin unto this land and to this place ; a ruin to all our dearest interests, both civil and religious. If there be any such houses among you, as I fear there are, that EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGE WATER. 45 vend that strong- drink contrary to the law of God and the Avholesome law of this province, let such of you as are vested with civil power and stand obliged unto the oath of God, see that such grievous profanation be suppressed, lest that iniquity, the abuse of rum, be our ruin." His posterity have been, and still are, very numerous. The names of two hundred of them in Bridgewater, alone appear on a late census ; and there are a great many also in Middleborough, Easton, Mendon, Maine, and other parts of the United States. Israel Keith formerly Adjutant General of the Commonwealth was one of his descendants. William Brett, among the first planters of the town, was a ruling elder in the church, ordained soon after Mr. Keith, and probably aided and assisted them in their public worship from the commencement of their settlement, and even after the ordi- nation of Mr. Keith. He was a well educated and intelligent man as is manifest from his letters to Gov. Winslow, still extant, and was much esteemed by his brethren, and often employed in their secular affairs. — The following extract, bearing testi- mony to the worth and good character of the church and its officers, is taken from the early church records of Plymouth. " The worthy church of Christ at Bridgewater have for their pastor Mr. James Keith, who came by the wise disposing hand of Providence out of Scotland. William Brett, a grave and godly man, is their ruling elder ; and John Willis, their deacon, a good man and one that hath proved himself faithful. They carry on in a way of peace, holiness, and good gospel order." The Rev. Daniel Perkins, successor of Mr. Keith, was ordained October 4, 1721. He was a native of Topsfield, in the county of Essex, and graduated at Harvard University 1717. He died September 29, 1782, as. 86th, and in the 62d year of his ministry, which was not long only, but peaceful and efficacious. The Rev. John Reed, S. T. D., successor of Mr. Perkins, was ordained as his colleague June 7, 1780. He graduated at Yale College, 1772, and was son of the Rev. Solomon Reed, of Titicut, who was a native of Abington. — Dr. Reed died Feb. 17, 1831, se. 79. He was an able and sound divine, and much 4(5 HISTORY OF THE employed on ecclesiastical councils ; and although deprived of his sight for many years previous to his death, he continued to preach till the last, and with his psalm hook open in his hand would recite the psalm at length. — Many of his occasional ser- mons are in print, and also a work of his on infant baptism, South Parish. A second precinct was incorporated June 1, 1716. This did not take place without some opposition.' The original applica- tion was made in 1715, the petitioners calling themselves inhabi- tants of the easterly part of the town of Bridgewater. A viewing committee was appointed consisting of John Gushing and Edmund Quincy of the council, and George Leonard, Henry Hodges and Jacob Thomson of the House.* They made a favorable report April IS, 1716, which was accepted, and an act of incorporation passed with this condition, " that the whole town stand obliged* to an honorable maintenance of the Rev. Mr. Keith, their present aged minister, if he should outlive his powers and capacities of discharging the office and duty of their minister." The dividing line began "at the brook, called the mile brook, where the road from Boston to Taunton crosseth the said brook, and from thence by a line running west and by south to the uttermost extent of the said township, and from the station first mentioned by a line running easterly in the midway between the dwelling house of Win. Hudson, and the dwelling house of David Perkins, Jr., and from thence the said line to be continued in the midst between the dwelling house of Edward Mitchell and the dwelling house of Nathaniel Hayward, and from thence the said line to be continued easterly in the midst betwixt the dwelling house of James Latham, and the dwelling house of Joseph Washburn, Jr., and from thence by a line due east to the extent of the said township." The new parish was called the south, and the old one the north precinct. Much the largest part of the town remained with the north, as it was suggested, " that there might soon be need of a third meeting- house." They recommended that the new meeting-house be erected " on the high or rising ground on the southerly side of the highway, going by John Washburn's house, being the easterly 7 EARLY SETTLEMENT OE ERIDUEWATER. 47 part of his field," and "that the old house remain where ft was, for five years, and then be removed down to Isaac Johnson's field, where divers roads meet convenient for that purpose."7 The new meeting-house was dedicated June 14, 1717, and Mr. Keith delivered the sermon as has been already stated. Before the time arrived for removing1 the old house in the north, (now west,) the east began to think of being incorporated into a parish, and therefore they assisted in repairing the old house where it stood, and were to have the money refunded to them when they came to build their own, and so the house was never moved. The Rev. Benjamin Allen, their first pastor, was a native of Tisbury, of Martha's Vineyard, graduated at Yale 1708, and ordained July 9, 1718. He continued with them about thirteen years, but being an unsuccessful manager of his private secular concerns, he fell into debt, and his parish after often relieving him, became at last weary of it, and he was dismissed by an ecclesiastical council. He preached his first sermon in the meeting-house August 18, 1717, and his last October 11, 1730. He was soon afterwards installed at Cape Elizabeth, and was the first minister of" that place, where he died May 6, 1754, se. 65. A grand-daughter of his by the name of Jourdan, married the Rev. Enos Hitchcock, D. D., of Providence. The Rev. John Shaw, his successor, was a native of the east parish of Bridgewater, and son of Joseph Shaw : graduated at Harvard University 1729, and ordained November 17, 1731. He died April 29, 1791, se. 82, and in the 60th year of his ministry, much beloved and respected by his people. He delivered the 6ermon at the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Taft, of Randolph, which is in print. His successor, the Rev. Zedekiah Sanger, S. T. D., was born at Sherburne, and graduated at Harvard University 1771 : was first settled at Duxbury, and afterwards installed as colleague with the Rev. Mr. Shaw, December 17, 1788. He died Novem- ber 17, 1820, se. 73, after a life of usefulness and great activity. He was a scholar and a learned divine. His house was a semi- nary, in which he prepared young men for college, and instructed young students in divinity. Amidst his ministerial and pastoral 48 HISTORY or THE labors, he was%lso for several years preceptor of the academy in his neighborhood. He enjoyed in a high degree the affections and respect of his people. — His successor was Richard M. Hodges, from Salem ; graduated at Harvard University 1815, who after performing his pastoral duties there for many years, was peaceably dismissed at his own desire ; and the present Rev. Theophilus P. Doggett, who graduated at Brown's Univer- sity 1819, was settled as his successor. There is a small ministerial fund in this parish, the trustees of which were incorporated Feb. 7, 1803. It was then nearly one thousand dollars, and has been augmented since. The south was settled very soon after the west parish. Among those who came in from other towns and resided there before and soon after 1700, were Samuel Kinsley, Thomas Mitchell, William Orcutt, William Hudson, Daniel Hudson, John Wash- burn, John Washburn, Jr., Richard Jennings, David Perkins, John Aldrich, Eleazar Carver, Nathaniel Conant, Richard Davenport and Joseph Pratt. East Parish. December 14, 1723, the east end of the north parish, then so called, ever since called the west parish, together with nine persons of the south parish, namely, Barnabas Seabury, Thomas Latham, Charles Latham, Nicholas Wade, Nathaniel Harden, Thomas Hooper, William Conant, Isaac Lazell, and Joseph Washburn, with their families and estates, were constituted a precinct, called the east parish. This was done also in pursu- ance of a viewing committee of court, consisting of Isaac Winslow, Samuel Thaxter, Josiah Cotton, Isaac Little and John Quincy. The boundaries were on the west, a due north line from the south parish, through the centre tree : and on the south- easterly side the Old Plymouth Road to Halifax. The first meeting house was raised March 14, 1720. The Rev. John Angier, graduated at Harvard University 1720, was their first Minister, ordained October 28, 1724. He was son of the Rev. Samuel Angier, of Rehoboth, and afterwards of Watertown. He died April 14, 1787, as. 86th, and in the 63d of his ministry. EARLY SETTLEiMENT OF BUIDUEWATER. 49 His son, the Rev. Samuel Angier, graduated at Harvard Uni- versity 1763, was ordained colleague with him Decemher 23, 17G7, and died January IS, 1805, a?. 62d, and in the 38th of Lis ministry. The father, the Rev. John Angier, preached the ordination sermon, which appears bound with the last edition of the " Eridgewater's Monitor." The successor of the Rev. Samuel Angier was the Rev. James' Flint, D. D., a native of Reading, Mass., and graduated at Harvard University 1802, and ordained October 29, 1806 ; and after officiating among them in his pastoral office for twelve or fifteen years, he was dismissed at his own desire, and afterwards installed at Salem. The Rev. Benjamin Fessenden, from Sand- wich, who graduated at Harvard University 1817, was then settled as his successor ; who was dismissed November 7, 1825, at his own request, and removed to Rhode Island, and has retired from the ministry; and the Rev. John Adams Williams, of Roxbury, who graduated at Harvard University 1820, was settled as his successor, October 18th, 1826 ; who remained in his office but a short time, having been dismissed by his own solicitation, August 4, 1S28; and was succeeded by the Rev. Eliphalet P. Crafts, who graduated at Brown University 1821, and ordained November 19, 1828, and who after a few years asked a dismis- sion, which Avas granted him, March 28, 1836, and he is now installed at Sandwich. — And the parish is now vacant. The first settlers in the east parish before 1700, who came in from abroad, were Robert Latham, Nicholas Byram, Jonathan Hill, Edward Mitchell, Thomas Whitman, Samuel Allen, and Joseph Shaw. Some of these were there about 1666. — Some of the sons of the first settlers in AVest Bridgewater were also among the early settlers in the East, as John Howard, Jr., William Brett, Jr., Elisha Hayward, Nathaniel Hayward, Jr., Isaac Alden, Francis Cary, Jonathan Cary, James Cary, Joseph Edson, Isaac Harris, and Samuel Harris. 50 . HISTORY OF THE North Parish. January 3, 1738, the north part of the west parish and a small part of the north-west corner of the east parish were incorpo- rated into a precinct, and called the north parish. It was bounded by a due east line from Easton, half a mile north of " the white oak tree at Jonathan Packard's corner" to the east parish line : and thence north-easterly to Beaver Brook, together with three families and their estates, on the east side of the river. Their first pastor was the Rev. John Porter, a native of Abington, graduated at Harvard University 1736 ; ordained October 15, 1740 ; died March 12,. 1802, ae. 87th, and in the 62d of his ministry. His successor, the Rev. Asa Meach, was ordained October 15, 1800, and dismissed by a mutual council 1811, and after- wards installed at Canterbury, Connecticut. He was a native of that state. His successor, the Rev. Daniel Huntington, a native of Nor- wich, Connecticut, graduated at Yale College 1816, was ordained October 28, 1812. He was brother of the late Rev. Mr. Huntington, of Boston, and son of General Jedediah Hunting- ton, of New London. His salary was $700, the highest then of any in the town. — He remained with his parish many years, but by his own solicitation was at length dismissed, and returned to Connecticut. The Rev. Mr. Thompson was his successor, who continued but a short time, and the Rev. Paul Couch is now their pastor. The north was the last settled part of the town. There were no settlements north of the old powder house in West Bridge- water, till after 1700. Among the first settlers were Daniel and Robert Howard, David, Solomon, John, James, Zaccheus and Abiel Packard, Henry Kingman, and Timothy Keith : all of whom came from West Bridffewater. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. Titicut Parish. February 4, 1743, the south-west part of the south parish, with a part of Middleborough, was incorporated into a precinct, called Titicut Parish. It lies south of the old four mile line, so called. The Rev. Solomon Reed before mentioned, a native of Abington, graduated at Harvard University 1739, was their first minister. The Rev. David Gurney, son of Perkins Gurney, of East Bridgewater, graduated at Harvard University 1785, was his successor. Their third minister is the present Rev. Philip Colby. The meeting-house is in Middleborough, and all their ministers have resided there, the largest part of the parish belonging to that town. Besides these territorial precints there is an Episcopal church in the south parish, incorporated June 14, 1815, by the name of Trinity Church. It is of much longer standing, having origi- nated in a grant of about fourteen acres of land, made January 23, 1747, by Samuel Edson, of Bridgewater, to the society in England for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, on condition that the income be applied to the support of public worship according to the usage of the Church of England. Their house was erected in 1648 by individual subscription. In April, 1812, they conveyed the glebe to the trustees of donations at Boston, and it is leased for nine hundred and ninety-nine years to John Edson, one of the members, for twenty-one dollars a year. June 12, 1816, having repaired their house and laid an assessment for the support of public worship, it was solemnly consecrated by Bishop Griswold, and the Rev. Messrs. Blake and Crocker. The Rev. Henry Blackaller is now their pastor. There is also a Baptist meeting-house in the west part of the west parish. The society consists of members partly from Easton and partly from Bridgewater. It was formed about the time Dr. Reed was ordained, but not incorporated till March 9, 1804. — Their ministers have been Mr. Robertson, Mr. Rathburn, Mr. Smith, Mr. Shurtliff, and the Rev. Bartlett Pease is now their pastor. There is also a Congregational society in South Bridgewater, 52 IIISTORT OF THE over which the Rev. Ebenezer Gay, who graduated at Harvard University 1814, is now settled, and another, over which the Rev. Mr. Raymond is pastor ; and a Universalist society, in which the Rev. Lewis G. Brown sometimes officiates; and a New Jerusalem church, over which the Rev. Samuel Worcester is pastor. There is also in North Bridgewater another Congregational society, over which the Rev. John Golclsbury, who graduated at Brown University, 1820, was pastor, but is now vacant ; and there is another, of which the Rev. John Dwight was pastor, but in which the Rev. Mr. Huntington above named is now preaching ; and a New Jerusalem church, over which the Rev. Warren Goddard is settled ; and a Methodist society, of which the Rev. Charles Hayward is pastor. There is also a 2d Congregational society in East Bridge- wrater, over which the Rev. Baalis Sanford, who graduated at Brown University 1823, is pastor. — There are also some of the New Jerusalem church there, and also some Universalists, who have regular meetings but no settled ministers. The general longevity of the early ministers of Bridgewater is worthy of notice. Four of them, namely, Mr. Perkins, Mr. J. Angier, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Porter, who were cotemporaries, and pastors of the four principal parishes, lived to the great ages respectively of 8C, 86, 83 and 87, and died in the 62d, 63d, 60th and 62d year of their ministry, and all officiated occasion- ally, and some of them regularly, till their deaths. — Dr. Reed died also in his SOth year, and Dr. Sanger in his 74th. These with Mr. Keith, who was 76, and Mr. Samuel Angier, who was 62, are the only ministers who ever died in the town. SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION. The town has been remarkable for its attention to education, both public and private. Mr. Keith and Elder Brett, in the very infancy of the settlement, procured a subscription of about £12 to be paid in Indian corn, for the use of the college at Cam- bridge. Assessments were also formerly made very liberally, EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDOEWATER. 53 both in the town and the parishes, for the maintenance of com- mon schools. The interest of learning has always been cherished here, and its importance duly appreciated. There is in the south parish an academy, established, and the trustees of it incorporated, February 28, 1799. The half town- ship of land granted by the general court as an endowment, was sold for $5,000. The building was erected by individuals who subscribed $3,000 for that purpose. It has always had the reputation of a good seminary of instruction, and is still well patronised and in a nourishing condition. The Hon. John A. Shaw is the present preceptor. The following are the names of those who have had colle- giate education, arranged under the parishes to which they respectively belonged, with the years and colleges annexed, in which they received their degrees : — Abiel Howard, Ephraim Keith, Joseph Snell, Nathaniel Snell, Richard Perkins, Elijah Packard, Simeon Hoioard, S. Daniel Johnson, Asa Dunbar, Silvanus Ames, Simeon Dunbar, Bezaliel Hoioard, S. Jonathan Burr, Jonas Hartwell, josiah edson, Benjamin Willis, Silvanus Conant, West Parish. 1729 Bezer Snell, 1789 1729 Charles Angier, 1793 1735 Francis Howard, 1797 B 1740 George W. Perkins, 1801 B 1748 John Reed, 1803 B 1750 Daniel JohnsoJi, 1806 B T.D.,1758 Barzillai Hayward, 1807 B 1767 John Willis, 1807 B 1767 John E. Howard, 1815 B 1767 George Copeland, 1815 B ' 1772 Caleb Reed, 1817 T.D.1781 Sampson Reed, 1818 1784 Ellis Ames, 1830 B 1787 D South Parish. 1730 Oakes Shaw', 1758 1740 Bezaliel Shaw, 1762 1740 William Shaw, S. T. D., 1762 54 Timothy Alien, Perez Fobes, L. L. D. John Shaw, Beza Hayward, Jonas Whitman, Martin Kinsley, Zpphaniah Willis, Thomas Perkins, James Allen, Seth Pratt, Nathan Hayward, Kilborn Whitman, Jonathan Leonard, Benjamin Whitman, Hezekiah Hooper, David Leonard, Zenas L. Leonard, Richard Sanger, Gains Conant, Nathan Fobes, John Shaw, Eliab By ram, Samxiel Angier, Thomas Gannett, Caleb Gannett, Oakes Angier, William Conant, James Thomas, Levi Whitman, Ebenezer Dawes, Barzillai Gannett, Allen Pratt, David Gurney, Ebenezer Lazell, history of the 1762 Seth Fobes, 1762 Noah Whitman, 1772 Cyrus Alden, 1772 Zedckiah Sanger, 1772 Y Ralph Sanger, 1778 John A. Shaw, 1778 Seth Alden, 1779 Levi W. Leonard, 1785 . Zebulon L. Shaiv, 1785 Theodore Edson, 1785 Zephaniah A. Bates, 1785 Benjamin Willis, 1786 Horatio Alger, 1788 B Daniel Leach, 1789 Nehemiah G. Lovell, 1792 B Lorenzo 0. Lovell, 1794 B David Perkins, 1800 Giles Leach, 1800 B Ephraim Fobes, 1803 B East Parish. 1729 Nahum Mitchell, 1740 Hector Orr, 1763 Ezekiel Whitman, 1763 Asa Mitchell, 1763 Jacob Hill, 1764 Eliab Whitman, 1770 Y Nathaniel Whitman, 1778 Daniel Whitman, 1779 Willard Phillips, 1785 Welcome Young, 1785 Silvanus L. Mitchell, 1785 Lucius Alden, 1785 Bernard Whitman, 1804 B 1806 B 1807 B 1807 1808 1811 1814 B 1815 1815 1822 1824 1825 B 1825 1830 B 1833 B 1833 B 1834 B B B 1788 B Jason Whitman, 1789 1792 1795 B 1802 1807 B 1807 B 1809 1809 B 1810 1814 B ,, 1817 1821 B 1823* 1825 * He with many others in the class of this year, owing to a disturbance in college, failed to take his degree. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF LUtllH. K\\ AT Ei(. 55 Joseph W. Cross, 1827 William Allen, 1837 Williams Latham, 1828 B Edmund B. Whitman, North Parish. 1838 James Thompson, 1761 N Naphtali Shaio, 1790 D John Porter, 1770 Y Daniel Howard, 1797 Huntington Porter, 1777 ISSACHAR SNELL, 1797 Jonathan Porter, 1777 Lucius Cary, 1798 B Eliphalet Porter, S.T. D.1777 Daniel Noyes, 1813 Y Thomas Crafts, 1783 Jonas Perkins, 1813 B Asa Packard, 1783 Jonathan P. Crafts, 1817 B Zechariah Howard, 1784 Austin Packard, 1821 B Hezekiah Packard, S. T. Levi Packard, 1821 D., 1787 Lucius Kingman, 1830 B Joshua Cushman, 1787 Titicut. Ephraim Keith, 1762 Oliver Hayivard, 1804 Adam Edson, 1775 Y Jonathan Keith, 1805 B Jael Edson, 1784 Y Calvin Pratt, B Daniel Crane, 1796 B D affixed to the year, stands for Dartmouth College — B for Brown University — Y for Yale College — N for Nassau or New Jersey College. Where no letter is affixed, Cambridge or Har- vard University is to be understood. Those in italics are clergymen. By comparing this list with the catalogue of Harvard, it appears that one quarter of the graduates in the class of 1785, were from Bridgewater. PONDS AND RIVERS. There are but two ponds of any considerable dimensions in the town. The largest lies on the south-west part of the town, adjoining Raynham, and was anciently called by the Indians 56 HISTORY OF THE Nuncketest or Neapnuncket, and afterwards and now called Nippenicket. The other lies in the easterly part of the town, adjoining Halifax, and was anciently called by the Indians Satucket ; but afterwards and now called Robins' Pond, after an Indian family of that name, who came from Mattakeeset, now Pembroke, and lived on the margin of it. Several families of Indians formerly settled and owned land on the shores of this pond ; but are now nearly extinct. There is a river issuing from the pond first abovementioned, which anciently bore the same name, Nuncketest ; but after the erection of the first mill, was called Mill River, and for a long time, and perhaps ever since the incorporation of the town, has been called Town River. It first runs in a north-easterly course through the middle of the west parish, and then by a more south-easterly direction passes through the south parish. On this stream is the principal mill seat in the west, and two of the principal water privileges in the south parish. There are several tributary streams which augment this river in its course, as Cowesit and West Meadow Brook in the west, and South Brook in the south parish, and other smaller streams. There is another river, which rises in Stoughton, south of the Blue Hills, and passes through the north parish, and is there called Salisbury River, from the circumstance of its running on the easterly side of Salisbury Plain, so called, and thence con- tinues its course into the east parish, where it unites with Beaver Brook, and is then called Matfield River, from an Indian of that name, who is said to have lived on the banks of it, and lower down it unites with Byram's Brook, anciently called Spring Brook, now called Forge Brook, and is then called John's River, from John Howard, an early settler near it, where Dea. Samuel Keen now lives. It soon unites with the Poor Meadow river, and thence passes into the south parish and there unites with the Town River. There are, in the north parish, five or six mill seats on this river and Beaver Brook, and seven in the east, including those on Beaver and Byram's Brook. This river passes the whole length of the town, and may well be called Middle River, as it is the middle one of the three princi- pal streams composing the Great River. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 57 Poor Meadow River, above mentioned, passes through Abing- ton and the north-west corner of Hanson, entering the east parish on the easterly side ; and, uniting with the river coining from Halifax, through Monponset Pond and Robin's Pond, is then called Satucket River, and after receiving a small increase from Black Brook unites with John's River, as before stated. Ho- bart's works in Abington, and Cushing's in Hanson, formerly called Moor's Forge, stand on the Poor Meadow stream ;' and the extensive works at Halifax are on the other branch of the Satucket River. Whitman's Mills in the east, now called the East Bridgewater Manufacturing Establishment, are on this river ; and just below the confluence of these three rivers, in the south parish, stand the new mills, so called, and the paper mill, owned by Hooker and Warren. The Great River, after receiv- ing the waters of the Winnetuxet from Plympton, and of the Namasket from Middleborough, is commonly called Titicut River, but from Titicut to the sea is called Taunton Great River. There are several other small mill seats in various parts of the town, on the minor brooks and rivulets, which afford sufficient water for them in many instances during the winter and spring seasons. Taunton River is called great only in comparison with its branches and tributaries, but is nevertheless large enough, even so high up as the south parish of Bridgewater, as to admit of ship building. Vessels of near one hundred and fifty tons were formerly built there, and carried down in time of freshets. SOIL, AGRICULTURE, AND MANUFACTURES. Bridgewater is a very level township, having few or no great hills. The only one, which may be properly so called, is Sprague's Hill, anciently called the Great Hill, situated between the east and south parishes, and this is but small. The westerly part of the north parish, commonly called the "West Shares," is perhaps the highest land in the town. The soil, as might well be supposed in so large an extent of territory, is various. In some parts, and particularly in those 8 58 HISTORY OF THE adjoining the rivers and brooks, it is of a good quality and very- productive. In other parts, as on the plains, it is suitable for tillage, being of a light mould, and produces good crops of grain with a moderate quantity of manure and little labor. Owing to the numerous water courses and large tracts of swampy grounds, the town, and particularly West Bridgewater, abounds with low meadow lands, producing a great supply of coarse hay, which formerly was held in great estimation, but since the great improve- ments in agriculture, and increased attention to the cultivation of English and other approved foreign grasses, it is considered of less value. These extensive meadows are still, however, of vast importance, and constitute one of its peculiar privileges as an agricultural town. It has always had the reputation of a good farming town, and might therefore be supposed to be almost wholly engaged in husbandry, yet it abounds in mechanics and manufacturers. Iron manufactures of almost every description have always been largely carried on here. The making of small arms in New England, if not in the United States, commenced here. Many stand of arms were made here before the Revolution. Cannon were here cast solid and bored, at the commencement of that war, the first, perhaps, that were manufactured in this manner in the country. There were more edged tools and wrought nails formerly made here than in any other town in the State. Bar iron, anchors, cotton gins, sugar mills, shovels, edged tools, hoops, nails, tacks, and castings of every description are still made here, and some of these branches are carried on very extensively. There are here also a paper mill, cotton mills, and other manufacturing and mechanic establishments of various kinds. Chaise making has for many years been a considerable branch of business ; but at present the shoe business exceeds all others ; two thousand dollars a week being paid at one establish- ment alone to the laborers for the making only of shoes. The Hon. Hugh Orr, himself a Scotchman, who manufactured the small arms and cannon as above stated, invited Robert Barr and Alexander Barr, brothers, from Scotland, to construct carding, spinning, and roping machines at his works in East EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEVVATER. 59 Bridgewater. And the General Court on the lGth of November, 1786, Mr. Orr himself then being one of the Senate, by a resolve of that date allowed them two hundred pounds fur their ingenu- ity, and afterwards granted them a further compensation of six tickets in the land lottery of that period. These machines remained in the possession of Mr. Orr for the inspection of all disposed to see them, and lie was requested by the General Court to exhibit the same and give all explanation and informa- tion in his power respecting them. These were the first machines of the kind ever made in the country. Mr. Slater, with the late Mr. Moses Brown, of Providence, came to examine them on Mr. Slater's first arrival in the country, and before he had com- menced any establishment of the kind. The circumstances of this visit were communicated to the writer by Mr. Brown himself, who at the same time added, that these were the first machines of the kind ever made in the United States. Thomas Somers, another Scotchman, under the direction of Mr. Orr, constructed other machines for carding, roping, and spinning cotton, and on the 8th of March, 1787, the General Court placed in Mr. Orr's hands twenty pounds to encourage the artist. Mr. Orr also about the same time employed another foreigner by the name of McClure, to weave jeans and corduroys by hand with a fly shuttle, much in the same manner as it is now done by water power. It may therefore with truth be said, perhaps, that the first small arms, the first solid cannon cast and bored, the first cotton thread ever spun by modern machinery, in America, were made in Bridgewater. The first nails manufactured by machinery in the United States were made here ; probably the first nail completely cut and headed by machinery at one opera- tion in the world, was made in East Bridgewater, by the late Mr. Samuel Rogers. In laying the shingles on the present meeting house in East Bridgewater, which was erected in 1794, nails made by hand in a small machine invented by him, were principally used. The writer well recollects the circumstance, and often saw the machine in operation. It had been invented and constructed long before, and was supposed to be the first method ever discovered of making a perfect nail at one operation. Some of the present manufactures carried on here, such as 60 HISTORY OF THE cotton gins and others, are probably the first ever made in New- England. — Few places therefore have done more towards the introduction and promotion of the manufacturing and mechanic arts, than this ancient town of Bridjrewater. CENSUS. - South fy ) Titicut. } West. East. North. Total, 1764, 880 1,318 959 833 3,990 1790, 4,975 1800, 5,200 1810, 1,065 1,552 1,195 1,354 5,166 1820, 1,055 1,692 1,435 1,480 5,662 1830, 1,042 1,855 1,653 1,953 6,503 1837, 1,145 2,092 1,927 2,701 7,865 Families in ) 1764, f 121 221 157 131 630 Dwelling houses ) in 1764, j 106 203 142 120 571 Families in 1790, 830 Houses in 1800, 740 Families in Houses " Titicut 1764 were « (< (< 48 41 f All included Inhabitants " " 1810 » 262 318 Y above with ! the South. The last United States land tax was in the West, $505,47 ; South, $552,99; East, $579,82; North, $598,52; Titicut, $150,54. Total, $2,387,34. Emigration from the town was formerly very great, and of course the increase of population in it was small. They first went to the western part of the State, and into New Hampshire and Vermont. Afterwards principally into Maine. Emigration of late has been less frequent, and of course population has increased. Bridgewater with Abington constitutes the 3d Regiment in the first Brigade, and 5th Division of the Massachusetts militia. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. CI MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM EARLY RECORDS IN A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. 1656. June. — The town was incorporated. " November 3. — It is agreed upon by the town that all who neglect to attend a town meeting after lawful warning shall pay Is. 6d.; and for tardiness, and not answering when their names are called, 9d. — and the same for going away before the meeting is closed. " Nathaniel Willis and Lawrence Willis bind themselves to free the toAvn from any charge in keeping their brother Jonathan Willis. " About the holsters bought of Goodman Hill. Goodman Hay ward, Sen., and Goodman Harris, having engaged for the payment of them, being 12s., the town is Avilling to pay it them again in their rate in the best of their pay, which they shall be amerced to pay out of their rates. " It is agreed that there shall be five wolf-traps made. 1660. — It is ordered and agreed upon freely and willingly to give to Mr. Bunker, if he shall come hither to supply the place of a minister, the sum of £30, or ^20 and his diet. 1661. — It is agreed upon to build a house for a minister who shall be called to settle with them, and to give him a purchase right. " It is agreed upon that those things that are agitated by the town for the good of the whole, shall be carried on by a major vote, and the vote be called for by the town clerk. 1663. — Constant Southworth and William Paybody laid out to Miles Standish three hundred acres at Satucket Pond, on the north side of Winnetuxet River, and butting upon Satucket River, one hundred and sixty rods in length from Satucket River. 62 HISTORY OF THE 1664. — The town make their agreement with Mr. Keith, student in divinity, for settling him in the ministry, and give him a purchase right and other lands, with a house built thereon, on condition that he continues with them. 1665. — Land granted to John Ames on both sides of a brook, called Hullet's Brook, down at the end of Hullet's Plain. 1666. — Samuel Edson, Nicholas Byram, and John Willis, ap- pointed by the court Counsellors of War with the military officers of the town. 1667. — A jury was named by the court to be empannelled to lay out all ways requisite in the town of Bridgewater, viz: — Nicholas Byram, Samuel Edson, Thomas Hay- ward, Samuel Packard, Nathaniel Willis, Lieutenant Thomas Hayward, Jr., Arthur Harris, John Cary, Ensign John Haward, Mark Lathrop, Robert Latham, Joseph Alden, and if by Providence any of these be hindered, that then Samuel Allen and John Ames do supply. 1669. — Arthur Harris and John Ames chosen troopers this year. 1671. — Comfort Willis chosen trooper for five years, to find horse and furniture, only the town to find a pair of pistols and holsters, and if they were out of kelter at any time, he to repair them ; and if he went to Yar- mouth, he was to have 20s.; if to Plymouth, 15s.; and if to Taunton, 10s.; and Israel Packard to be trooper also on the same terms. " John Hayward of the plain, and Nathaniel Willis to enquire who drink strong liquors in ordinaries. " Voted to build a new meeting-house, and granted four score pounds and no more for falling, squaring, fram- ing, enclosing, covering, flooring, glazing, and seating, and whatsoever belongs to the finishing of the same, excepting the galleries and ceiling : the dimensions to be forty by twenty-six feet, and fourteen feet studs. EARLY SETTLEMENT OP BRIDGEWATER. 63 1672. — At a meeting of the purchasers or proprietors, a com- mittee was appointed " to consider the manner to be adopted in future for laying out their lands. This was the first meeting held separately by the proprietors. " The town being met the 17th of June, and Mr. Constant Southworth, assistant, coming through the town, and having been appointed by court to choose and give oath to a jury for laying out highways convenient in the town, did accordingly perform the service, and appointed Samuel Edson, (foreman,) Lieutenant Hay- ward, Ensign Haward, Mark Lathrop, Joseph Bassett, Samuel Tompkins, John Ames, Thomas Snell, John Washburn, John Hayward, John Willis, Jr., and John Cary. 1673. — It was voted that Mr. Keith, having been some compe- tent time with them, should have the house and lands where he lived, twelve acres, and a whole purchase right. 1674. — The town ordered that a new book for the recording of lands should be procured, and a committee was chosen to see that the records were made and transcribed correctly, and on good evidence. " The young men were allowed to build galleries to the meeting house, and to have the front seats to themselves. 1675. — The meeting-house and minister's house ordered to be fortified, powder and ball to be procured, and pay for soldiers provided. " It was agreed there should be two wears to catch fish ; and the parties for Satucket should be from the elder's, (William Brett's,) and so all the families along to Sa- tucket, with John Washburn, Guido Bailey, John Leonard, Samuel Leonard, and Nathaniel Hayward : and all the rest of the town for Mill River. " All the householders and male children twenty years old and upwards, now found to be sixty-four in number, shall be proprietors in the lands at Titicut, just bought of the Indians. 64 HISTORY OF THE 1C75. — The fortification about the meeting house to be made with half trees seven feet high above the ground, six rods long and four rods wide, besides the flankers ; and every quarter or squadron to do, each of them, a side or an end ; and they that do the ends must make each of them a door, and each of them a flanker ; to be done by the Gth of November. " Provision made for soldiers that should be pressed into the service, and such necessaries procured and money raised as they might need. 1676. — A vote was called to see what should be done with the money that was made of the Indians, that were sold last, and it was voted, that the soldiers that took them should have it. " Elder Brett, Deacon Willis, and Mr. Samuel Edson were appointed to distribute the contributions made by divers christians in Ireland for the distresses of the Indian Avars. " Deacon Willis and John Cary were chosen to take in the charges of the late war since June last, and the expenses of the scouts that Avere sent out before and since June. 1678. — Mr. Keith being sick, Elder Brett Avas chosen to assist him in carrying on the Avork of the ministry betAveen this and May next. 1683. — The purchasers agreed that the old field to the north- Avard of the highAvay, by Goodman Bailey's, be reserved for a training-field. 1685. — The Selectmen to take bond of Joseph Washburn for the maintenance of his uncle, Philip Washburn. 1686. — It Avas agreed by the town and purchasers that the four rods to lay out lands by, should be thirteen inches over by the box rule. " It was agreed that the layers out of lands, Avhen they leave lands for higliAvays, shall leave four rods, or one line, in breadth for allowance for higliAvays ; and the EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 65 highways through such lands where allowance is so made, shall not be less than forty feet. 1686. — Ten acres of wood land to be laid out to each purchaser nearest to their habitations, as the land will afford it to be laid out, viz : — Lots on the south side of Town River, below Goodman Alden's, namely, to William Snow, Samuel Edson, Edward Fobes, John Ames, Elihu Brett, Samuel Ed- son, Jr., Josiah Edson, Matthew Gannett, (of Scituate,) Solomon Leonard, Giles Leach, Benjamin "Willis. North side of the Town River, viz : — John Willis, Nathaniel Hayward, John Willis, Jr., Captain Wads- worth, (Samuel, of Duxbury,) Lieutenant (Thomas) Hayward, Joseph Bassett, William Bassett, Joseph Alden, John Bobbins, Goodman, (William) Orcutt, Joseph Wadsworth, (of Duxbury,) Thomas Washburn. On the west end of the town, towards West Meadoio Brook, viz : — Goodman, (Guido) Bayley, Goodman, (Mark) Lathrop, Ensign (John) Haward,^ Goodman, (Samuel) Packard, Elkanah Willis, Mr. Keith, Good- man, (George) Turner, John Field, John Hayward of the plain, Thomas Snell, Arthur Harris. South side of South Brook, viz : — Goodman (John) Washburn, Goodman, (Thomas) Washburn, Good- man, (Samuel) Washburn, John Porter, Captain Wads- worth. John Kingman, at the end of his land where his house is. Joseph Cary, in the swamp below John Kingman's and John Hayward's. Easterly side of Stony Brook at the Centre Tree, viz : Elisha Hayward, John Cary, Jonathan Hill, William Brett, Joseph Edson. Easterly side of Satucket River, near Jonathan's plain, and down the river, viz : — Goodman (Robert) Latham, Samuel Allen, Thomas Whitman. 9 66 HISTORY OF THE At the head of Spring Brook, viz ; — Nicholas Byram, Nicholas Byram, Jr., John Whitman, Thomas Whitman. Note. — Gannett and the Wadsworths were not inhabitants of the town, — all the rest were, and these locations will give some idea of the places of their residence. 1687. — John Usher's warrant sent to the constable of Bridge- water for choosing commissioners for taking a list of males from sixteen years old and upward, and valuing estates, was received by me, Joseph Edson, constable, August 22. Samuel Allen chosen commissioner. 1688. — Division of highways third Monday of May, for repairs, viz : — For John's Bridge. Goodman Bayley, Guido Bay- ley, Jr., Goodman Orcutt, William Orcutt, Jr., Richard Jennings ; John Packard, to make ahorse bridge there. Note. — This was formerly called Jennings' Bridge, then Packard's Bridge, and now Pope's Bridge. It was first called John's Bridge, after John Packard, who lived there, but was not long known by that name. Joppa Bridge was more usually called John's Bridge, after John Haward, who lived near it. For the bridge at SatucJcet River, at Isaac Harris1 house ; Joseph Washburn, James Latham, Joseph Latham, Thomas Whitman. For the highivay at Goodman Alden's swamp. Thomas Washburn, Goodman (Joseph) Alden, Comfort Willis, For the ways over at Joseph Hayward's. Elihu Brett, Nathaniel Brett, John Bolton, Zaccheus- Packard, John Kingman. For South Brook to Comfort Willis'. Samuel Wash- burn, John Washburn, Goodman (Nathaniel) Conant, John Leonard, Benjamin Washburn. For thebridge at Ensign Haivard's. — Samuel Edson, Ensign Haward, Edward Fobes, John Ames. For Salisbury Plain. — John Hayward on the plain, and Thomas Snell. For Mile Brook. — John Willis, Benjamin Willis, John Aldrich. EARLY SETTLEMENT OF BRIDGEWATER. 67 1G89. — Lieutenant Hayward and Samuel Allen chosen agents to go to Plymouth about settling the Gournet. " John Willis appointed by court to solemnize marriages, to summon witnesses before grand jurors, and to ad- minister oaths, , 86. 25. 44. Abel (s. of John 15.) m. Esther Porter 1751, and had Abel 1754, Esther 17-56, Adam 175S, Lydia 176U, Mary J 7(54, Olive 1707, Theophilus 1709. This family went to Cuminington. — Theophilus is a settled clergyman at Shelburne. 45. John (s. of John 15.) m. Sarah Hammond 1703, and had Aznhah 1704, Sarah 1705, Rebeekah 1709. His w. d. 1773, and he m. a Vinson, and went to Plainfield. 40. Barnabas (s. of John 15.) m. Sarah Ford, and had Bar- nabas 1704, Molly 1706, Pollycarpns 1768, Bartimeus 1709, Cyrus 1771. The parents went to Cummington. and had 2 sons there, John and Philander. 47. Josiah (s. of Capt. Abiel 10.) m. Sarah, D. of Thomas Ames, 1747, and had Susanna 174!), Sarah 1751, Mary 1753, Josiah, Abiel, Shepard, Edward, Ames, Betsy, Anna. 'He d. 1793, se. 70. Susanna m. Samuel Sturtevant, and then John Bicknell — Sarah m. Ephraim Packard 1773. — Mary m. Samuel Brett 1778. — Betsy m.Dea. James Perkins. — Annam. Seth Snow 1795.-*-Abiel and Edward went to Hebron, Me. — Abiel Packard m. Hannah Harris 1794. 48. Joshua (s. of Capt. Abiel 10.) m. Mehitabel,D. of Samuel Alden, 1755, and had Caleb 175S, Joshua 1759, Ralph, Lebbeus, Mehitabel. This family all went to Me. 49. Thomas (s. of Capt. Abiel 10.) m. Mary, D. of Henry Howard perhaps, 1750, and had Parmenas 1757, Silence 1700, Mary 1702, Thomas 1704, Zibia 1700, Elijah 1769, Cyrus 1772, Daniel 1770. He m. wid. Martha Packard 1779. Silence m. Daniel Howard. — Mary in. John Robinson 1781. — Zibia m. Ja- cob Packard 17S9. — Elijah m. Nabby Packard 1793. — Cyrus m. Kezia, D. of Matthew Kingman 1795. — Daniel m. Nancy, D. of Maj. James Keith, 1790. — Elijah and Daniel went to Pelham. 50. Timothy (s. of Capt. Abiel 10.) m. Sarah Alden, and had Bethuel 1700, Calvin 1702, Luther 1704, Sarah 1707, Timothy 1709, Perez 1771, Josiah Edson 1770 : he d. 1780, as. 48. Sarah m. Elisha Eames. — Bethuel m. Rebecca Peterson of Dux. 1783, and went to Me. — Calvin went to Easton : his w. Betsy : they had Sally 178G, Zibeon 1789, Tilson 1792.— Timothy m. Aholibama Curtis 1790, and he, Perez, Luther, and Josiah Edson went westward. — Luther m. Abigail Thomas 17S7. — Perez m. Mercy Thomas 1792. 51. Daniel (s. of Captain Abiel 10.) m. Hannah Perkins, 1705, and had Hannah 1700, Abigail 1708, Daniel 1770, Rhoda 1772, and went Avestward. Daniel m. Zibeah, D. of Gain Rob- inson perhaps, and went to Pelham. 52. Eliab (s. of Capt. Abiel 16.) m. Alice, D. of Ebenezer Packard 1709, and had Eliab 1770, Alice 1771, and went Avest- ward. Eliab m. Hannah Shaw of Abington 1792. 53. Benjamin (s. of Capt. Abiel 10.) m. Lurania, D. of Pela- PACKARD. 259 tiah Phinncy 1775: loft no children: gave his estate to Capt. Adin Packard. 54. Edward (s. of Joseph 17.) m. Ruth, D. of Elisha Bonney, of Pembroke, and had Chloe and Leah. His w. d. 1764, and he in. Rebecca, sister of Ichabod Pope of Dartmouth, now Fair- haven, 1766, and had Rebeckah, Edward, Jacob, Elnathan, John, Deborah, Susanna. Chloe and Leah went to Brookfield. — Rebeckah m. Seth Gurney 17SS, and all the others with their parents went to Minot, Me. 55. Ichabod (perhaps s. of George 20.) was a soldier with Gen. Winslow 1755, m. Ruth, D. of James Allen, 1757, and had Mary 1753, Nehemiah 1760, Ichabod 1763, Lydia 1766, Isaac 1769 : he went to Oakham. Ichabod m. Rachel, D. of Ephraim Cole, 1786. 56. Samuel (s. of Samuel IS.) m. Elizabeth, D. of Joseph Carver, 1757, and had Betty 1758, Silvia 1760. He probably m. Mary Washburn 1761 for his 2d wife. 57. Rev. Elijah (s. of Zechariah 19.) gra. H. U. 1750, and settled in the ministry at Plymouth 1754, and afterwards went to Marlboroujrh : his wife Mary Rider : he had Abigail, Benja- min 1760, Elijah 1762, Mary 1765. Abigail m. Dr. Simeon Dun- bar 1781. — Mary m. Jesse Fobes 1795. — Benjamin m. Mehitabel, D. of Eliab Fobes, 1784, and went to Vermont. 58. Nathaniel (s. of Zechariah 19.) m. Sarah, D. of Jonathan Snow, 1753, had Zadock 1755, Ichabod 1757. She d. 1758, and he m. Anna Sloan 175S, and had David 1760, Sarah 1762, Zecha- riah, Nathaniel, and perhaps others. Ichabod m. Rachel, D. of Job Chamberlin 17S0.— David m. Mara Robinson 1785. They all went to Lebanon, N. H. 59. Capt. Nathan (s. of Zechariah 19.) m. Lydia, D. of Ephraim Jackson, 1758, and had Oliver, Elijah, Nathan, Ransom, Perez, Sullivan, Jonas, Sarah, Abigail, Lydia, Olive, Roxana. He d. 1798, a?. 65. Sarah m. Zepheniah Lathrop 1779. — Abigail m. Jonas Howard 1784. — Lydia m. Bernard Clapp 1793. — Olive m. Sam'l Dickerman 1799. — Roxana m. Sam'l Randall of Easton 1805. — Oliver m. Mary, D. of Josiah Dunbar 1785, and Ransom m. Abigail Thrasher 1797, and both went to the State of New York. — Nathan m. Polly Manly 1815. — Perez m. Elizabeth Reynolds 1803. — Sullivan m. Lucy, D. of Ephraim Jackson 1805. 60. George (s. of George 20.) m. Abigail Esty 1760, and had Amasa 1761, Philip 1763. His w. d. 1765, and he m. Abigail, D. of John Packard 1766, and had George 1767, Zadock 1768, Zebedee 1770. Philip m. Patty Edson 1786. 61. Jonathan (s. of Seth 26.) m. Susanna Packard or Alger 1778, and had Israel 1779, Ruel 1780, Othniel 1786, Asa 1791, Albe 1793, Isaac 1796, Betsy 1799. — Ruel and Albe went to Randolph. — Othniel went to N. H. — Isaac went to Mid'o. — Betsy m. a Watson. 62. Abijah (s. of Samuel 21.) m. Ann Fobes of Easton 1767, and had Abijah 1768, Simeon 1770, Charles 1772, Gamaliel 1775, 260 PACKARD. Abijah went to Dartmouth ; m. Hannah, D. of Henry Smith, and had Henry S., now Representative of the town, Ann Maria, and Charles Fobes. Henry in. Mary Fierce, and has William Henry, Mary Ann, Franklin S., and Charles A. — Ann Maria m. Elihu Wood. — Charles F. went to Rehoboth, then to Boston, then to N. Y., and d. there : only one child, a D., now living. — Simeon m. Hannah, D. of Ezra Edson, 1796, and had Simeon, who went away, and is probably d.: the mother, a wicl., is now living. — Gamaliel went to Dartmouth ; m. Susan Joy, and had Susan, Louisa and Amy, all now living single. 63. Caleb (s. of Jonathan 30.) m. Sarah, D. of Nathan How- ard Esq. 1782, and had Caleb 1783. He d. 17S3, se. 24, and she in. Caleb Loring of Ply nipt on 1802 : she d. 1834. Caleb m. Sally, D. of Josiah Packard 1805. 64. Capt. David (s. of David 31.) m. Joanna, D. of Ephraim Jackson 1784, and had Charity 1770, Abel, John, Olive, Martha, Mary. He d. of small-pox 1786, se. 44. Charity m. Ephraim Packard 1790.— Olive m. Holmes Tilson 1797.— Patty m. Bar- zillai Field 1794. — Polly m. a Rice. — Abel and John went west- ward.— Wid. Joanna m. Jona. Hayden of Grafton 1807. 65. William (s. of William 32.) m. Hannah, D. of Nathaniel Reynolds 1769, and had Sihon 1770, Nancy 1772, Eliphaz, Wil- liam. She d., and he m. Mary Wales 1784, and had Ambrose, Cyrus, Charles, Hannah, Polly, Matilda, Sarah. Eliphaz went to Milton. — William went to St. 66. Lemuel Esq. (s. of William 32.) m. Sarah Hunt of Abing- ton 1774, and had Lemuel 1775, Sally 1777, Micah 1780, John 17S2, Arza 1784, David 1787, Silvanus 17S9, Martin 1791, Oren 1793, Isaac 1796. He d. 1822, se. 75 : his w. d. 1S25. Lemuel d. in Boston 1822, ae. 47.— Sally m. Thomas Cary 1798.— Micah m. Lucinda Hartshorn of Walpole, and had Sarah Ann 1811, Adeline 1813, Catharine 1S14, - Harriet 1816.— John Esq. m. Silence, D. of Parmenas Packard, and had John 1806, David and Jonathan 1809, Lemuel 1S14. — Arza m. Abi, D. of Abijah Rnapp, 1812, and had Arza 1813, Edwin 1S16.— David m. Su- sanna, D. of Mark Perkins 1810. — Silvanus, and Martin who m. a Powers, went to Boston. — Isaac m. Sally Packard 1821. 67. Isaac (s. of Capt. Isaac 33.) in. Mary Atwood of Eastham 1776, and had Isaac 1778, and d. 1778 ; and his wid. m. Daniel Cooley Esq. of Amherst 1796. Isaac m. a Cobb of Boston, and had 2 Ds., and removed to N. York, and both of his Ds. are m. there. One m. the Hon. Dudley Selden. OS. Dea. Ebenezer (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Mary, D. of Nath'l Reynolds, 1774, and had Mehitabel 1774, Philip 1776, Mary 1778. His wife d., and he m. wid. Content Harlow 1781, and had Sarah 1781, Ebenezer 1783, Silvester 1785, Rhoda 1788, Ansel 17S9, Charles 1792, Content. Sally m. Matthew Randall 1802, Content m. Benja. Southworth 1819. — Mehitabel m. Wal- ter Ames 1796. — Wid Content m. Japhet Beal 1803. — Ebenezer m. Zerviah Phinney 1806. PACKARD. 261 69. Jonas (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Samuel Brett, 1777, and had John, Jonas 1782, Moses 1786, Hannah 1787, Lucinda 1790, David 1792, Sibil 1796, Eunice, Joel, Me- hitabel. Lucinda m. Capt. David Ames 1816. — Eunice m. Jo- siah Brett 1812. — Mehitabel in. a Jamieson. — Jonas removed to Maine. — Joel is d. 70. Adin (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Keziah, D. of Pelatiah Phin- ney, 1780, and had Lucy 1781, Adin, Susanna, Sally. She d. 1839, k. 86.— Lucy m. Atherton Wild of Braintree 1808.— Su- sanna m. Ephraim Cole 1S0S. — Sally m. Isaac Packard 1821. — Capt. Adin m. Sally Horton 1S06, and went to Merrimack. 71. Matthew (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Keziah, D. of Luke Perkins, 1781, and had Nehemiah, Eliphalet, Matthew, Keziah : he d. 1795, or before. Nehemiah m. Chloe, and Eliphalet m. Abigail, Ds. of Nathan Snell, 1807 and 1814, and both went to Me. 72. Dea. Eliphalet (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Lydia, D. of Wm. Barrell 1782, and had Robert 1784, Ruth 1786, Bela 1793, Lydia 1795. He went to Me.,. and had afterwards two wives, a Reed, and Anna Thayer 1S00, wid. of David Thayer : she was a French, and had Betsy, Mary, and Esther. — Ruth m. Dr. Sam- uel W. Thayer.— Dea. Packard d. 1819, eb. 61. 73. Capt. Robert (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Ruth, D. of Wm. Barrell 1782, and Sally Perkins 1788, and had Ruth 1789, Hul- dah 1791, Patty 1793, Olive 1795. His w. d. and he m. Sarah, D. of Joseph Hay ward, 179S. He had also Robert, Isaac, Eben- ezer, Sally, Silvia, Almira, Mary. — Ruth m. Martin Southworth 1S11. — Huldah m. Adam Capen 1816. — Patty m. Theron Ames 1816.— Olive m. Newton Shaw 1818.— Robert m. Betsy, D. of Oliver Howard. 74. Lot (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Mary Nelson of New Bedford 1791, and had Polly Nelson 1793, and Avent to Me. 75. Noah (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Polly, D. of Simeon Pack- ard, 1791, and had Mehitabel 1791, Nancy 1792, Robie 1794, and went to Me. 76. Joseph (s. of Ebenezer 34.) m. Lusanna Bates 1794, and had Harmony 1795, and went to Me. 77. Abiah (s. of Abiah 35.) m. Mary French 1788, and had Chloe 1789, Mary 1791, Anna 1792, Lvdia 1795. 78. Levi (s. of Abiah 35.) m. Ruth Snow of Eastham 1789, and had Davis 1790, Levi 1793, Phebe 1795, Heman, Josiah. — Davis m. Sarah, D. of Joseph Ford 1813, and went to New Sa- lem.— Phebe m. Martin Kingman IS 16. — Levi gra. B. U. 1821. 79. Silas Esq. (s. of Abiah 35.) m. Chloe, D. of Nathan Wil- lis, 1789, and had Silas, Charles, Chloe, Abigail. Silas m. a Cobb of Boston. — Charles m. Charlotte, D. of Capt. Thomas Thompson 1818.— Chloe m. Thomas Wales Jr. 1811.— Abigail m. David Cobb, and is d. 80. Howard (s. of Abiah 35.) m. Jane Capen of St. 1799, and had Eunice 1799, Jane 1804, Charlotte 1810, Susanna Capen 1810. 262 PACKARD. 81. Jacob (s. of Jacob 36.) m. Rebecca, D. of Jolin French, 1774, and bad Abigail 1775, and went to Warwick. — Jacob Packard of Warwick m. Hannah Kingman 1800. — VVid. Rebecca m. Charles Snell 1807. 82. Mark (s. of Jacob 36.) m. Hannah, D. of William Shaw, 1774, and had Samuel 1775, Jennet 1777, Phile 1779, Dan 1781, Thirza, Sophia, Hannah, Mark. He went to Winchester. — Jen- net m. Phineas Paul of Quincy 1801. — Dan m. Martha, D. of Abiel Edson 1804. 83. Oliver (s. of Jacob 36.) m. Relief, D. of Ichabod Edson, 1777, and had Vashti 1778, Jacob 1780, Jesse 1783. 84. Mayhew (s. of Solomon 37.) m. Clarissa, D. of Ephraim Jackson, 1801, and had Hannah 1802, Salome 1804. 85. Micah (s. of Solomon 37.) m. Susan (or Sarah) Whitmarsh 1812, and had Abiezer Whitmarsh 1814. 86. James (s. of James 40.) m. Jemima, D. of Ephraim Chur- chill, 1778, and went to Norway, Me., and had Keziah 1779, who m. a Bum}), and lived in Otisfield, Me., Mary 1781, James 1783, Ephraim 1787. 87. Isaiah (s. of Simeon 43.) m. Betsy, D. of Abiah Packard, 1792, and had Hezekiah 1793, Zibeon 1795, Simeon 1797, Lu- cius 1801, Betsy Howard 1804. Hezekiah m. Matilda, D. of Zechariah Gurney 1820. — Zibeon m. a Bicknell and went to A. Simeon m. a Kingman. 88. Zenas (s. of Simeon 43.) m. Deborah, D. of Ebenezer Thayer of Braintree, 1793, and had Deborah 1795, Charlotte 1796, Zenas 1798, Hosea 1800, Rachel 1803, Benjamin Alden 1806, Mary Perkins 1808, Lorenzo Emerson 1810, Horatio 1813, Lydia Thayer 1815. Deborah m. Samuel Holmes 1813.— Char- lotte m. Joseph Wild of Braintree 1817. — Zenas m. Jerusha, D. of Isaac Horton, 1S20, and had Jerusha, Betsy French, Benja- min, Ezekiel Reed, and Hermon. — Hosea m. Roxana Holmes 1818, and had Celia, Hosea, Roxana, Ebenezer and Jerome Henry. — Benjamin A. m. Rhoda Packard, and had Benjamin Winslow and Andrew Franklin. — Mary P. m. William Lewis. 89. Josiah (s. of Josiah 47.) m. Rebecca Perkins 1783, and had Luke, Abiel, Sally, Rebecca. Abiel m. Abigail, D. of John Harris, 1815— Sally m. Caleb Packard 1805. — Rebecca m. Ben- jamin Kingman 1817. 90. Ames (s. of Josiah 47.) m. Susannah Joy 1797, and had William 1797, Nancy 1799, Susanna 1801, Betsy 1803, Josiah 1805, Bathsheba 1808, Charles 1810. William m. Lucy Quincy Norton of Abington 1820. 91. Capt. Parmenas (s. of Thomas 49.) in. Martha, D. of Thomas Reynolds, 1778, and had Ambrose 1778, Parmenas 1782, Galen 1786, Apollos 1788, Susanna 1790, Silence 1792, Roland 1796, Gideon H. 1798, Royal 1802. Apollos m. Sophia, D. of Amzi Brett 1811. — Susanna m. Barna. Thayer of Braintree 1806. Silence m. Capt. John Packard 1S14.— Roland m. a Dyer. 92. Thomas (s. of Thomas 49.) m. Joanna, D. of Ichabod PACKARD. 263 Edson 17S8, and had Azor 1790, Austin 1S01. He d. 1814.— Azor m. Nancy, D. of Col. Caleb Howard, 1815. — Austin gra. B. U. 1821, and is an Attorney in W. 15. 93. Elijah (s. of Rev. Elijah 57.) m. Keziah, D. of Capt. John Ames, 1783, and had Mary, Abigail, and Susanna. He d., and she then m.' Benjamin Robinson 1798. Mary m. Benjamin Rob- inson Jr. 1809. — Abigail m. Charles Marcy of Plymouth 1812. — Susanna m. a Ruggles at the westward, and had a D. Susanna, who m. Isaac S. Washburn. 94. Zadock (s. of Nathaniel 58,) m. Martha, D. of Henry Howard probably 1779, and had Selah 1779, who m. Pelham Bradford 1797 and d., Reuel 1782, Molly 1784, Sarah 1787, Holder 17S9, Preston and Pardon 1792, Zadock 1795, Martha 1796. She d. 1799, ae. 40, and he m. a 2d w. Rebecca, and had Rebecca 1S00, Luther 1S02, Selah 1804, Jerusha 1807, William 1811. — Mary (Molly) m. Silvanus Conant perhaps 1808. — Sarah m. Elkanah Billings perhaps 1809. 95. Elijah (s. of Nathan 59.) m. Susanna, D. of Japhet Beal, 1789, and had Lewis 17S9, Libeus 1791, Lydia 1793, Isaac 1795, Elijah 1797, Clara 1799, Patience 1801, Susanna 1803, Nathan 1806, Sophronia 1808, Damson 1811. Lewis m. Betsy Crane 1808.— Libeus m. Minerva, D. of Daniel Alger, 1812, and had Eliza Stetson 1812, Maria Pickering 1816.— Lydia m. Samuel Codding of Mansfield 1814.— Isaac m. Sally, D. of Robert Pack- ard perhaps, 1821. — Clara m. Sam'l Dickerman perhaps 1822. 96. Israel (s. of Jonathan 61.) m. Susanna, D. of Josiah Ed- son, 1801, and had Josiah 1802, Melvin 1804, Sidney 1806, Lib- erty 1808, Arvilla 1810, Israel 1813, Alpheus 1815, Henry, Susanna. 97. Asa (s. of Jonathan 61.) m. Susanna Leach 181.1, and had Abigail 1812, Geo. W. 1814, Eugenia Maria 1815, Lucinda 1819. 98. Sihon (s. of William 65.) m. Abigail Scott of Dedham 1794, and had Joseph, Oren, Sihon, Isaac, Washburn, John, Nathaniel, David, Betsy, Mary. Oren m. Sally Skinner of Mansfield 1821. — Isaac m. Laura, D. of Daniel Bryant of E. B. David lives in Boston. 99. John (s. of Jonas 69.) m. Martha, D. of William French, 1S02, and had Josiah 1803, Mary F. 1805, Ahnira 1S06, Philo F. 1808, Sidney 1811. She d., and he m. Lydia Drake 1817. 100. Samuel (s. of Mark 82.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Abiel Har- ris, 1799, and had Francis 1S00, Harriet 1803, Hiram 1805, Mary 1808, Hannah 1810, Lucius 1812, Mehitabel 1815. 101. Capt. Luke (s. of Josiah 89.) m. Lucinda, D. of Samuel Battles, 1806, and had Marcus 1808, Nelson 1810, Eliza Dyer 1813, Josiah 1816. 102. Ambrose (s. of Parmcnas 91.) m. Esther White 1S05, and had Lucius Sumner 1808, Esther White 1809, Elbridge Gerry 1811, Martha 1814, Ambrose 1816. 103. Galen (s. of Capt. Parmenas 91.) in. Mary, D. of Isaac Horton, 1809, and had Edward 1811*, Willard 1812, Mary 1815. 264 PACKARD.— PARRIS. Anne Packard m. a Sampson. — Betty m. Jonathan Snow 1761. — Rebecca m. James Perkins 1783. — Thomas m. Martha Perkins 1789. — Ephraim m. Polly Leach 17S9. — Abigail m. Jonathan Howard 1794. — Sally in. Frederick Reed Jr. of Re- hoboth 1797. — Wid. Hannah m. Samuel Kimball of E. 1797. — Salmon m. Freelove Niles 1795. — Melatiah m. Barnabas Pack- ard 1794. — Jemima m. Eben'r Phillips, both of E. 1802. — Mary m. Silvanus Conant 1808. — Julia m. Ethan Howard of E. 1814. — Isaac m. Mary Jones Foster of Hr. 1816. — Susannah m. Albert Remington of A. 1820. — Marcus of E. m. Lucy French of E. B. 1821. — Wid. Deliverance d. in S. B. 1790, se. 88: she was D. of Wm, Orcutt Jr., and first m. Capt. Joseph Washburn : Barnabas d. in S. B. 1795, se. 25. — Experience, wife of Abiel Packard, d. in S. B. 1790, re. 83.— Sarah m. Wm. Pool 1795.— Isaac Porter (s. of Joseph) m. a Packard. — Wid. Susanna Packard d. 1773, se. 89. PARRIS. — Thomas Parris of London came to Long Island, N. Y., 1683; thence removed to Newbury, Ms., 16S5, and to Pembroke 1697 : his father was John, a dissenting minister of Ugborough, near Plymouth, England, whose father was Thomas, a merchant of London, who had a brother a merchant and planter of great wealth, who d. in Barbadoes 1660. (See Deane's Scit- uate.) Thomas, first above named, had a s. Thomas born at Pembroke 1701 ; m. Hannah, D. of Matthew Gannett of Scituate, 1724, and had Thomas 1725, Elkanah, Benjamin, Matthew. The father d. 1786. Thomas (last named) m. Rebeckah, D. of Ben- jamin Hayward Jr., and settled within the borders of E. B., and had Benjamin 1753, Thomas 1758. Thomas, the father, d. 1797, je. 72; she 1806, se. 77. Thomas, the son, perished in a great snow storm 1777. 2. Benjamin (s. of Thomas l.)m. Sarah, D. of his uncle Ben- jamin of Halifax 1774. She d. 1787, se. 36 : he then m. a 2d w. Lydia, and had Betsy 1789, Thomas 1792, Oren 1796. The father was drowned 1817, ae. 66; his w. d. 1824, se. 69. Thomas m. Clarissa, D. of Barza Kingman, 1815. — Oren m. Eunice, wid. of William Wildy and D. of Barza Kingman, and both live in E. B., and have families. — Betsy m. Otis Hayward 1804. Elkanah (brother of Thomas 1.) m. Grace Mott of Scituate 1761, and has a large family at Williamstown. Benjamin (brother of Thomas 1.) married Millescent, D. of Josiah Keith of Easton 1753, and had Samuel 1755, Matthew 1757, Josiah, Martin, Dan, Sarah and others probably. This man lived awhile in the border of Halifax, near his brother Thomas, but d. in Pembroke. — Samuel Esq. m. Sarah Pratt of Mid'o, and settled in Hebron, Me., and is father of Albion Keith Parris, late Governor of Me. — Matthew m. Mercy Tomson of Halifax 1780, and d. in Me., and was father of Alexander Esq. of Boston. — Josiah m. Experience, D. of Nath'l Lowden of E. B. 1788, and settled in Me., and has a son Virgil, an Attorney and Member of Congress.— Martin gra. B. U. 1790, and was PARRIS.— PERKINS. 265 a Minister of Marshfield, and d. 1839. — Dan has a family in Halifax. Thomas and Mary Parris, of Cambridge, had Thomas 1641, Mary 1643. — John Parris, of Charlestown 1645, gave a mort- gage of his houses in Barbadoes 1650 to secure .£650 to be paid in Lombard street at the Green Dragon, London. — Samuel and Elizabeth Parris had Thos. 1681, Elizabeth 1682, Susanna 16S7. Thomas and Mary Parris, of Boston, had Mary 1686*, Mary 1687.— Thomas Parris at Duxbury 1710. PERKINS.— David Perkins (from Beverly) settled in S. B. before 16S8 : was the first Representative of the town to the Gen'l Court in Boston after the union of the two colonies in 1692; m. Martha, D. of John Howard, 1699, and had John 1700, Mary 1702, Martha 1704, Elizabeth 1707, Susanna 1709, David 1711, Jonathan 1714, Abraham 1716, and Sarah: his w. d. 1735; he d. 1736, as. 83. Mary m. Gideon Washburn.— Mar- tha m. Dr. Joseph Byram 1724. — Elizabeth m. Solomon Leo- nard.— Susanna m. Samuel Allen 1733. — Sarah m. Jabez Carver 1742. — Nathan b. before he came here, and Thomas b. here 1688, were his sons by a former wife probably. He built the first mill at the place where Lazell, Perkins & Co. have now a large man- ufacturing establishment, 1694. He lived on the Boston road, near where the road turns to go to the works. 2. Nathan (s. of David 1.) m. Martha, D. perhaps of Solomon Leonard, 1709, and had Nathan 1710, Solomon 1712, Timothy 1715, Martha 1717, James 1720, Silence 1723. He d., and the widow m. Isaac Hayward 1728. — Martha m. Samuel Edson 3d 1738. 3. Thomas (s. of David 1.) m. Mary, D. perhaps of James Washburn 1717, and had Mary 1718, Hepzibah 1720, Thomas 1722, Ebenezer 1727, Francis 1729 : she d. 1750, he 1761. Mary m. Josiah Hayward 1742, Hepzibah m. Eleazar Carver 1746, and Ebenezer Keith 1759. 4. David (s. of David 1.) m. Alice, D. of John Leach, 1738, and had David 1739, Zephaniah 1742, John 1746, Robert 1750, Asa 1754. Zepheniah m. Mary Ford 1766. 5. Jonathan (s. of David 1.) m. Bethiah, D. of Nath'l Hay- ward 1738, and settled in E. B. and had Jonathan 1739, Elizabeth 1742, Bethiah 1746. His wife d., and he m. Priscilla Bourne, and had Bourne 1758 : the father d. 1796, a?. 82 ; she 1813, a?. 92. Jonathan was badly burnt in a forge, and became entirely blind : he probably m. Mary Hamlin 1765. — Elizabeth m. Con- sider Bearce of Halifax 1761. Bourne d. of the small-pox 1778, ee. 20. 6. Abraham (s. of David 1.) m. Mary, D. of Eleazar Carver, 1743, and had Abraham 1750, Mary 1752: he d. 1807, ae. 90— Mary m. Caleb Cary 1778, and d. 1840. 7. Nathan (s. of Nathan 2.) m. Sarah, wid. of Nathan, or D. of Solomon Pratt, 1752, and had Phebe 1753, Joanna 1755, 34 266 PERKINS. Nathan 1758, Lucy 1760, Charles, Deborah. Deborah m. John Conant 1772. — Perhaps Charles and Deborah were children of a former wife. 8. Solomon (s. of Nathan 2.) in. Lydia, D. of Jonathan Sprague, 1733, and had Joseph and Benjamin 1735, Solomon 1737, Lydia 1741, Eliab 1743. Joseph m. Martha Hayward 1761. — Benjamin m.Hepzibah Washburn of Mid'o, 1761. — Solo- mon was in the French war, 1755, under Gen. Winslow, and m. Sarah Edson 1760. — Lydia m. Abner Sears of Mid'o, 1762. 9. Timothy (s. of Nathan 2.) m. Susanna, D. of Samuel Washburn 1736, and had Nathaniel. Timothy Perkins m. Zip- porah, D. of William Washburn 1753. — Nathaniel m. Mary, D. of Joseph Alger, 1775. 10. James (s. of Nathan 2.) m. Bethiah Dunham 1742, and had Martha 1743, James 1746, Barnabas 1752, Ezra 1756, Seth 1762. Martha m. John Porter Jr. 1764. 11. Thomas (s. of Thomas 3.) m. Mary, D. of Solomon Pratt, 1748, and had William 1748, Mary 1750, Sarah 1752, Enoch 1754, Thomas 1756, Theodore 1758, Deborah 176 1, Cyrus 1767 : his will and d. 1773; she d. 1778. William m. Elizabeth, D. of Eleazar Cary, 1777, and d. 1778, and she m. Solomon Snow 1780. — Mary m. Oliver Carver 1774. — Sarah m. Eli Hudson 1776. — Thomas gra. H. U. 1779, and d. young in Kentucky. — Theodore m. Martha, D. of Nathan Conant 1783, and had Thomas 1785. She afterwards m. Rev. William Conant. — Deborah m. Benjamin Edson 1782. — Cyrus m. Sally Howard 1787, and went to Vt. 12. Ebenezer (s. Thomas 3.) m. Experience Holmes 1751, and had Ebenezer 1752, Mary, Holmes 1757, Hepzibah 1759, Susanna 1764, and Nancy: he d. 1770. Holmes moved away. — Susanna not in. — Nancy m. Rufus Leach 179S. 13. Francis (s. of Thomas 3.) m. Susanna, D. of Dea. Robert Waterman of Halifax, 1762, and had Susanna and Robert. She d. 1770, and he m. Philibert, D. of Ephraim Keith, 1775, and had Jacob, Francis, Philibert. He d. 1783. Susanna m. Enoch Perkins 1783.— Robert d. 1793, ge. 29.— Philibert not m.— Fran- cis m. Polly Leonard 1815, and had Francis and one other son, and both went eastward. He m. a 2d w. 14. Charles (s. of Nathan 7.) m. Abigail, D. of Perez Water- man, 1762, and had Olive, Sene, Charles, Philip, and others per- haps : he removed to the westward. Olive m. Nehemiah Edson 17S3.— Sene m. Ezra Edson Jr. 1782. 15. Dea. James (s. of James 10.) m. Mary Hooper 1771, and had Bethiah 1772, Rufus 1774, Levi 1776, Martha Porter and Polly. He d. 1795, ae. 75 ; she 1803, se. SO. Bethiah m. Dr. Shubael Lovell of Barnstable 1797. — Levi H. Perkins m. Bethiah Dunbar 1804.— Martha P. m. Phineas Blake of Canton 1804.— Polly m. and went westward. 16. Enoch (s. of Thomas 11.) m. Susanna, D. of Francis Perkins, 1783, and had Humphrey 1786, Moses 1788, Enoch PERKINS. o67 1791, Susanna 1793, Robert 1796, Sarah 1798, Harry 1800 : he went to Me. 17. Ebenezer (s. of Ebenezer 12.) hi. Mary, D. of Solomon Pratt, 1782, and had Daniel, Solomon, Thomas, Aaron, a Bap- tist Minister in N. Y.; Oman, Ebenezer, Simeon, Ozias, went to Hanson, Minerva, Mary. Simeon m. Sally W., D. of Timo. Hayward. — Daniel m. Mehitabel Robinson of Taunton 1809, and d., and she m. Charles Daniels 1814. — Mary m. in Boston, Minerva in. Allen Edson 1815. — Thomas m. Betsy Munroe 1819. Oman m. Betsy Crooker of P. 1818. 18. Jacob (s. of Francis 13.) m. Mary Thomas of Pern. 1808, and had Mary, Marcia, Jacob, David gra., B. U. 1834, Sally Keith, Edith, Ellen, Robert, Nathaniel. Mary m. Calvin Pratt of Mid'o. — Maria m. Thos. Washburn. — Jacob, Sally Keith, and Edith all d. 1838.— Mary the mother d. 1S39. 19. Rufus (s. of Dea. James 15.) m. Rebecca, D. of Thomas Johnson, 1797, and had Rebecca J. 1799, Cassandra L. 1802, Huldah A. 1S04, Rufus S. 1807, Maria S. 1809, James T. 1813, Lucy Ann 1818. He went westward. 20. Solomon (s. of Ebenezer 17.) m. Clarissa, D. of Dyer Robinson 1813, and had Henry 1814, Charles R. 1816, William Franklin 1818, George Sproat 1820, Ebenezer 1826, Mary and Martha 1828, Saba 1829, Alfred Holmes 1830. 21. Rev. Daniel Perkins, born in Topsfield, Essex Co. gra. H. U. 1717, settled in the ministry in W. B., Oct. 4, 1721, m. Anne Foster of Charlestown, and had Anne 1724, Richard 1730. She d., and he m. madam Hancock, mother of the Governor : he d. Sept. 29, 1782, as. 86. Anne m. the Rev. Matthew Bridge of Framingham 1747, and afterwards the Rev. Mr. Harrington of Lancaster. 22. Dr. Richard (s. of the Rev. Daniel 20.) gra. H. U. 1748, was a Physician, m. Mary, D. of his mother-in-law, and sis- ter of Governor Hancock, 1760, and had Daniel 1761, Mary 1763, Nancy 1764, Richard 1766, Sarah 1767, John Hancock 1769, Lydia Henchman 1770, Elizabeth 1771, William 1773, Lucy 1775, Foster 1777, George Washington 1778. She d. 1779, he then m. Mary Hunt of Watertown 1781 : he d. Oct. 16, 1813, 33. 83. Mary m. Dr. Simeon Dunbar 1804 : his 2d w. — Nancy not m. — Richard Avas a Physician ; removed to Whitestown. — Sarah m. a Hughes of Boston, left no children. — John H. m. Vina, D. of Edward Lathrop, 1793, was a Physician, had a D. Mary Lathrop 1797, and removed to Whitestown. — Lydia H. m. Samuel Spear 1795, and had a son Samuel who gra. H. U. 1817, and d. at S. Carolina (was drowned) in youth; she d., and he m. her sister Lucy 1798. — Elizabeth m. Rev. Eben. Withington 1797. — William went to Boston, m. Nabby Butler Crane 1799, and had William Foster 1800, Abijah Crane 1S02.— Foster d. young. 23. Dr. Daniel (s. of Richard 22.) m. Bathsheba, D. of Josiah Williams 1783, and had Louisa 1804, Mary, Daniel. She d. 1836, as. 73 ; he 1839, as. 78. Mary m. Dr. Noah Whitman 268 PERKINS. 1812. — Daniel went to Charleston, S. C, m. there, and had a family, and has returned to Boston, where his w. d. 1839. 24. George W. (s. of Dr. Richard 22.) m. Anna, D. of Joseph Ames, 1802, and had George W. 1803, Mary Ann 1805, Eliza Jane 1807, Richard Foster 1S09, Lucy 1812, Joseph Ames 1814. lie removed to Augusta, Me. 25. Mark Perkins came from Ipswich 1741, and settled in N. B.: his wife was a Whipple (probably Dorothy): he had Josiah, Jonathan, Isaac, Jesse, Dorothy, Sarah, Jemima, Martha, Mary : he d. 1756, se. 58. Dorothy in. Jacob Packard 1742. — Sarah m. Ebenezer Packard 1746. — Jemima m. Levi Keith 1759. — Martha m. Nathan Packard. — Mary m. Simeon Packard 1761. — Dorothy Perkins, the wid. perhaps, m. Solomon Packard 1760. 26. Josiah (s. of Mark 25.) m. Abigail, D. of Benjamin Edson, 1755, and had Mehitabel 1756, Abigail 1758, Mark 1760, Josiah 1762, Sarah 1766, Benjamin 1768, Silvia 1769, Jacob, Shepard : he d. 1798, re. 73. Mehitabel m. Daniel Ames 1780. — Abigail m. Benjamin Hayward 1777. — Benjamin m. Hannah, D. of Jere- miah Washburn 1789, and went to Me. — Jacob went to Spring- field. 27. Jonathan (s. of Mark 25.) m. Abigail, D. of Jonathan Packard, 1752, and had Abigail 1757, Jonathan 1758, Ruby 1761, George 1763, Daniel, Susanna, Parna: he d. 1802, a?. 74. Abigail m. Jonathan Cary 1784. — Ruby m. Alpheus Gary 1786. — George went to Canada. — Susanna m. Robert Howard 1788. — Jonathan m. Abigail, D. of John Howard, 1785, and had a son Moses Hudson 1791. 2S. Isaac (s. of Mark 25.) m. Joanna, D. of Benjamin Edson 1754, and settled in Titicut, and had Abraham 1755, Isaac 1757, Joanna 1761, Jacob 1763. Jacob m. Abigail Leonard of Mid'o. 1788. 29. Capt. Jesse (s. of Mark 25.) m. Susanna, D. of Dr. Daniel Field, 1769, and had Zadock 1771, Rachel 1776. His vv. d., and he m. Bliss, D. of Pelatiah Phinney, 1789, and had Jesse 1791. He m. Sally Silvester 1808 for his 3d w. — Rachel m. Shepard Perkins 1797. 30. Mark (s. of Josiah 26.) m. Tabitha, D. of Jeremiah Wash- burn, 1784, and had Charity 1785, Phebe 1788, Susanna and Sibil 1791 —Sally 1796. Charity m. Capt. Asa Jones 1806.— Phebe m. David Macomber of Easton 1805. — Sibil m. Josiah Dunbar 1807. Susanna m. David Packard 1810.— Sally m. Waldo Field 1820. 31. Josiah (s. of Josiah 26.) m. Anna, D. of Jonas Reynolds, 1790, and had Jonas 1790, Nahum 1792, Mehitabel 1795^ Jonas gra. B. U. 1813, m. Rhoda, D. of Simeon Keith, 1815. and set- tled in the ministry at Braintree. — Nahum m. Vesta, D. of Caleb Copeland, 1820.— Mehitabel m. Charles Keith 1817. 32. Shepard (s. of Josiah 26.) m. Rachel, D. of Capt. Jesse Perkins, 1797, and had Azel, Josiah, Zadock, and Susanna. 33. Zadock (s. of Capt. Jesse 29.) m. Hannah, D. of Abiah Packard, 1796, and had Anselm 1797, Sidney 1799. He d.,and PERKINS.— PERRY.— PETTINGILL. 209 the widow m. William Edson 1812. — Anselm m. Dorothy, D. of Samuel Battles, 1819. — Sidney m. a Capen. 34. Jesse Esq. (s. of Capt. Jesse 29.) m. Elizabeth, D. of Rev. Thomas Crafts, 1815, and had Caroline Bliss, Thomas Crafts, Mary Porter, Frederick and Elizabeth. 35. Luke (nephew to Mark 25.) came from Ipswich, settled in N. B., m. Rebecca, D. of James Packard, 1749, and had Anne 1750, Jemima 1753, Mary 1754, James 1757, Luke, Keziah, Susanna, Martha, Phebe : he d. 1770, as. 51. Anne m. Jonas Reynolds. — Jemima m. Joseph Reynolds 1772. — Mary m. Capt. William French. — James m. Betsy, D. of Josiah Packard, and went to Minot, Me. — Luke m. Mary, D. of Nathan Snell per- haps, 1797, and went to Winthrop, Me. — Keziah m. Matthew Packard 1781. — Susanna m. Simeon Brett 1777. — Martha m. Gideon Lincoln 1781. — Phebe m. Asaph Howard Esq. 1789, and went to Minot. — James m. Rebecca Packard 17S3. Betty m. Benanuel Leach 1741. — Lydia m. James Keith 1744. Phebe m. James Thurston 1749. — Mary m. Joseph Warren 1750. Rebecca m. Jona. Washburn 1757. — Anne m. Reuben Packard 1759. — Hannah m. Daniel Packard 1765. — Betty m. Samuel Snow 1775. — Rebecca m. Josiah Packard Jr. 1782. — Sally m. Capt. Robt. Packard 1788.— Martha m. Thos. Packard 1789. — Olive m. Benjamin Pratt 17S9. — James m. Rebecca Packard 1783. — Nathaniel Jr. m. Hannah Hay ward 1794. — Polly m. Dean Howard of E. 1800.— Naomi m. Alfred Johnson 1801.— Jesse m. Sally Silvester 1808. — Asa m. Huldah Hayward 1815. Susanna m. Otis Alger 1817. — Wid. Hannah in. John Snow 1821. Dan Shaw m. a Perkins of M. PERRY.— Dr. Nathan Perry (s. of Nathan of Norton) m. a Clapp, and settled in N. B., and has William, Julia and Sophia. PETTINGILL.— Akerman Pettigill m. Joanna, D. of Sam'l Kingman, 1723, and had Daniel 1720, Nathan 1732, Jacob 1734, and Hannah. His wife d., and he had a 2d w. Mehitabel, and had Stephen 1743, Silence 1745. — Akerman Pettingill m. Debo- rah Colson 1749. 2. Samuel Pettingill m. Martha Jackson of A. 1732, and had Edm'd 1739, Joseph 1743, Jona. 1748, Martha 1751, Sam'l 1753. 3. Joseph Pettingill m. Mary Edson 1745; she d. 1746, and he m. Lydia Phillips 1746, and had Mary 1747, Esther 1749, Han- nah 1750, all b. in A.; Lydia 1752, John 1753, Phebe 1755, Jo- seph 1757, William 1759, Obadiah and Joanna 1762 : he d. 1 777 ; she 1795. — William m. Lydia Cobb 1784. — Joanna m. William Turner 1781. 4. Daniel (s. of Akerman 1.) m. Hannah, D. of Samuel Soper, 1750, and had Oliver 1752, Molly 1754, Sarah 1756, Hannah 1759, Silvia 1761, Jacob 1763, Asa 1765, Susanna 1767, Svbil and Celia 1771 : he d. 1808. Asa m. Elizabeth, D. of Thomas Carr, 1789.— Sybil m. Josiah Hathaway 1788. 5. Nathan (s. of Akerman L) was a soldier with Gen. Wins- low 1755 at Nova Scotia, and m. Elizabeth, D. of Thomas Carr, 270 PETTINGILL— PHILLIPS. 1760, and had Betty 1760, Akerman 1763, Hugh 1766. His w. (1. 176S, and lie m. Margaret Markham 1775, and had Thomas 1775, Anne 1778. — Betty (or Joseph's D. below) m. Ichabod Shurtleff of Plymo. 1T07. 6. Daniel Jr. m. Sarah, D. of Matthew Gannett, 1755, and had Matthew 1756, Daniel 1758, Molly 1761. Wid. Sarah in. Amos Ford of Dux. 1766. [See Edmund 11.] 7. Joseph (s. of Samuel 2.) m. Hepzibah Townsel 1764, and had Betty 1765. She (or Nathan's D. above) m. J. ShurtlifF 1787. 8. Stephen (s. of Akerman 1.) m. Abigail, D. of Sam'l Ripley perhaps, 1764, and had Mehitabel 1766, Abigail 1767, Rhoda 1768, Beza 1771, Ruby 1773, Stephen 1777. 9. John (s. of Joseph 3.) m. Elizabeth, D. of Thos. Thomp- son, 1784, and had John 1785, Arminta 1786, William 1789, after his father's death. 10. Hugh (s. of Nathan 5.) and his wife Hannah had Ethan 17S6, Holmes 1789, Jennet 1791, Betty 1793, Heman 1795. 11. Edmund and his wife Sarah, D. of Ashley Curtis, m. 1760, had Mehitabel 1761, Edmund 1762, Josiah 1765. Wid. Sarah m. Amos Ford of Duxbury 1766. [See Daniel Jr. 6.] 12. Obadiah m. Eleanor Cobb 1792, and had Arcadius 1793, Obadiah 1795. Mehitabel m. Jonathan Pitcher of Norwich, Conn., 1733. — Wid. Martha m. Anthony Pierce 1748. — Widow Anne m. John Kingman 1771. — Benjamin of E. m. Molly Howard 1773. — Ben- jamin m. Mary, D. of Henry Kingman, 1747. — Daniel of E. was a magistrate. — Daniel and Esther, of A., had Joseph 1719, Ben- jamin 1720, Joanna 1722, Sarah 1725, who m. Joseph Bates 1746 : he d. 1726; she 1735. — Obadiah and Martha, of A., had Daniel 1732, Joanna 1735, Samuel 1739: he d. 1743. — John d. 1742 ; his wid. Priscilla d. 1772, se. 88: both at A. PHILLIPS.— Thomas Phillips (from Marshfield) settled in E. B., and was probably son of Benjamin, who was s. of John, whose father John was at Marshfield 1638. Thomas m. the wid. of John Sherman, D. of Mark Eames and g. D. of Anthony Eames of Marshfield : Sherman lived in Rochester, and left one s. Anthony Sherman, who came to E. B. — Phillips came to E. B. about 1735, and had Abiah, Thomas, Lydia, Mark 1736, Deb- orah 1739. His w. d., and he m. Hannah, wid. of Micah Allen, and D. of Timothy or Joseph Eclson, 1747: she d. 1768; he d. before 1767. Lyclia m. Zebulun Cary 1749. — Abiah m. Benja- min Taylor 1761, and d. 1800 as. 70. Taylor d. 1776, as. 80.— It is said one D., perhaps Deborah, m. a Wade. [See William 8.] John, father of Benj., was killed by lightning at Marshfield 1656. 2. Thomas (s. of Thomas 1.) m. Mary, D. of David Hatch, 1755, and had John 1756, Mary 1758, Thomas 1760, Joseph, Turner, David : he d. at Spectacle Island in the harbor of Bos- ton, of the small-pox, 1781. Mary in. Joseph Whitman 1780. — Joseph went to New York, and was father of Willard Phillips PHILLIPS.— PHINNEY. Esq. of Boston, Judge of Probate, &c. — David also went to N. York.— Wid. Mary Phillips d. 1811, se. 77. 3. Mark (s. of Thomas 1.) m. Mercy, D. of Blaney Phillips of Hanson, 1762, and had Chloe 1764jHark 176S, Molly 17T0, Susanna 1772, Wadsvvorth J774, Nabhy 1777, d. single 1807; Barzillai 1779, Lucy 1783, Mercy 1787, d. single 1831 : he d. lSll,a3. 75; she 1816, ». 71. Chloe m. Isaiah Whitman 17S4. — Molly m. Barza Kingman 1791. — Susanna m. Jacob Lowden 1794. — Lucy m. Smardus Snell 1807. — Wadsworth and Barzillai "went westward. 4. John (s. of Thomas 2.) was serjeant in Gen. Washington's life guard during the Revolutionary war, and m. Jennet, D. of John Young, 1784, and had George Y. 1788, Jennet 1790, Mar- quis La Fayette 1792, Eunice Bass 1797, Robert 1802 : his w. d. 1823, ce. 57". George Y. m. Bethiah, wid. of Asa Mitchell and D. of Joseph Lazell, 1812, and had Abigail Ames 1813, and Asa Mitchell 1815, and the family all removed to Poughkepsie,N. Y. 5. Thomas (s. of Thomas 2.) m. Martha, D. of Capt. Simeon Whitman, 1783, and had Thomas and Joanna Whitman : he d. 1809, se. 49. Thomas went to Natick. — Joanna m. John Corthrell of Abington 1811. 6. Turner (s. of Thomas 2.) m. Huldah, D. of Capt. Simeon Whitman, 1787, and had Electa, Huldah, and others. He d. 1824, a3. 60.— Huldah m. Algernon Sidney Brett. — Electa m. Jared Reed, his 2d wife. 7. Mark (s. of Mark 3.) m. Celia,D. of Job Chamberlin, 1789, and had Lucinda 1790, Nathan 1793, Nabby 179S, Wadsworth 1800, Phebe 1S04, Celia 1810. Lucinda m. Melzar Hudson 1818.— Nabby m. Jona. Pratt of Halifax 1821.— Phebe m. Ben- jamin H. Washburn. — Celia m. Nathaniel Porter. 8. William Phillips (from Easton) m. Hannah, D. of John Pryor, 1718, and d. 1743: he lived in Hanson probably (then Bridgewater). His D. Lydia in. Joseph Pettingill 1746. — Mary, who m. Ezra Warren 1752, might have been his D. also. — Caleb Phillips was also in Bridgewater 173S, perhaps father of Elipha- let below. — Deborah m. Levi Wade 1766. [See Thomas 1.] 9. Eliphalet Phillips m. Mary, D. of David Howard, 1762, and had Eliphalet 1765, Mary 1768, Caleb 1770, Hannah 1771 : he d. 1773, and the Avid, m. Seth Harris. Hannah m. Benjamin Leonard 1715. — Cyrus B. m. Lucretia Barrett of E. 1S19. — Samuel of Norton m. Lydia Bassett 1726. — Ebenezer of E. m. Jemima Packard 1802.' Diana H. m. Jo. Al- len Jr. 1814. — William m. Mara Kingman 1795. — Capt. John m. Bridget Southworth 1749.— Betty m. Wm Brett 1801. — Rebecca of Plymo. m. Zadock Packard 1799. — Mary M. m. Jo. Blanchard 1807 Nancy m. Philip Andrews 1820.— Ezra m. Mehitabel, D. of Joseph Allen, 1809. — Lewis m. Polly Goodspeed 1795. PHINNEY or FINNEY— Pelatiah Phinney settled in S. B., and m. Mercy, D. of Josiah Washburn, 1738, and had Freelove 1740, Lurania 1741, Onesiphorus 1744, Mary 1745, Zerviah 272 PHINNEY.— PIERCE.— PINSON. 174S, Esther 1751, Keziah 1753, Bliss 1754, Hannah 1758, John 1760. Pelatiah Phinney m. Mary Randall of E. 1764.— Free- love m. Jacob Tomson of M. 1761. — Lurania m. Benja. Packard 1775. — Zerviali m. Ebeltezer Packard 1786. — Esther m. Barna- bas Curtis 1774. — Keziah m. Adin Packard 17S0. — Bliss m. Capt. Jesse Perkins 1789. 2. Joseph Phinney and his wife Mary had Amy 1745, Noah 174S, Rebecca 1751 : his w. d. 1760. Joseph Phinney m. Alice Campbell of T. 1761.— Amy m. Robert Randall of E. 1764.— Noah m. Betty, D. of Jeremiah Conant, 1769. Ithamar Phinney m. Anna, D. of Simeon Leonard 1799. — Achsah m. James Wood 1764. — Experience Phinney m. William Slack of T. 1775.— Jonathan of M. m. Deborah Wade 1735. PIERCE. — Anthony Pierce and his w. Keturah lived in E. B., (perhaps now Hanson), joined Mr. Angier's Church 1741, had Susanna 1733, Avho m. George Bradley 1753. He m. a 2d w. Martha, wid. of Obadiah Pettingill of A. 1748, and had An- thony 1755. Anthony m. Sile Pratt 1778. John Pierce of P. m. Susanna Newland 1713. — Wid. Polly Pierce m. Perez Williams 1798. — Benjamin Pierce m. Jane, D. of Dea. Thomas Hayvvard, 1750 : his 2d wife. — Mary m. Eben- ezer Keith 1741. — Martha m. John Fobes 1738. — Sarah m. Elisha Pierce 1731. — Mary of Scit. m. Benjamin Pope Esq. 1792. — Elisha Pierce of Scit. m. Mary, wid. of John Field and D. of Ephraim Howard. — Lydia m. John Heiford 1706. — Mercy m. Joseph Truant 1767. — Sarah in. John Pratt 1751. — Hannah m. Joseph Newell 1732. — Abigail m. Eleazar Alden 1819. — Annara. Moses Mandell of Dorchester 1819. — Benjamin of Scit. m. Char- ity, D. of Jona. Howard 1742. — Calvin of Scit. m. Huldah, D. of Hezekiah Hay ward 1767. — Jacob Pierce m. Lucy Conant 1794. — Polly of M. m. David Leonard 1797. — Lucy m. Andrew Tucker 1814. PINCIN or PINSON.— William Pincin, b. 1757, (s. of Thos. of Scituate) m. Elizabeth Beal of Hingham 1777, and settled in E. B., and had Deborah, Benjamin 1781, Betsy 1785, William 1787 : he d. 1828, ae. 72; his mother, wid. Ann Pincin, d. 1808, ge. 77. — Deborah m. Abel Delano 1795. — Benjamin m. and d. 1830, 53. 49.— Betty m. Elijah Beal of Hingham 1804.— William m. Margaret Whiting 1807, and d. 1822, ss. 35.— Mehitabel Pincin m. Martin Beal of Hingham 1816. 2. Benjamin, b. 1760, (s. of Thomas of Scituate and brother of William above) came also to E. B. with his mother and bro- ther, and m. Molly, D. of Abishai Stetson 1787, and had Polly, who m. Daniel Magoun of P., 1816, and Susanna, who m. Dex- ter Pratt. Thomas Pinson, the ancestor of this family, was at Scituate before 1636. His g. g. s. Thomas m. Anne Taylor 1755 at Scit- uate, and had Elizabeth 1756, William (above) 1757, and Ben- jamin (above) 1760. PINCIN.— POOL.— POPE. 273 This name is variously written in the early records, Pinson, Pincin, and Pinchin, and the last accords with the uniform pro- nunciation. It is undoubtedly the same name as Pynchon, and Pinson is probably the original and true spelling". Wm. Pinson . (so spelt) of Wolverhampton Co., of Stafford, Eng., gave a power of attorney to Richard Brown of N. E. 165S. William Pynchon, of Roxbury 1630, went to England 1652, and d. there 1662. Who else of the name could then have had occasion to give this power ? Besides, Brown came over the same year, 1630, and was a ruling Elder and Representative at Watertown. — John Pincin of Chesterfield m. Judith Curtis of Scit. 1788. — Abner Pincin m. Hannah Cowen 1770. — Welcome m. Deborah Crooker of P. 181S. — Rebecca m. Southworth Gammons Jr. of M. 1819. POOL. — Isaac Pool (from AVeymouth probably) and his wife Bethiah lived in S. B.: he d. 1759; she 17G6. Isaac Pool (father or son) was in the French war 1755 at Nova Scotia. — Hannah Pool m. John Pain 173S. 2. Isaac Jr. m. Sarah, D. of Joseph Leonard 1743, and had Hannah 1744, Mary 1746, Olive 1748, Isaac 1751, Wealthy 1753, David 1755. Isaac m. Rebeckah, D. of Nathan Washburn 1774. This family went to Halifax. 3. Joseph and his w. Rebecca had John 1754, Sarah 1760, Mary 1762, Hopestill 1765, Benjamin 1767: d. 1813. — Sarah m. Ebenezer Snow Jr. 1783. 4. John (s. of Joseph 3.) m. Hannah, D. of Benjamin Price, 1777, and had John 1777, Betsy 1779, George 1781. 5. John (s. of John 4. probably) m. Susanna, D. of Daniel Willis, 1801, had John 1803, Susanna 1S08, Mary 1810, Eliza- beth 1812, Daniel Willis 1814, George 1816. 6. William m. Sarah Packard 1795, and had William 1796, Daniel 1797, Sally 1799, Belinda 1801. 7. Samuel m. Ruth Fullerton 1759, and lived in E. B., and had Samuel, John, William, Oliver, Olive, and others, ten in all. He went to Easton, where he d. Dec. 1830, she d. Aug. 3, 1835, ae. 97, and had 344 descendants. Joshua Pool d. in E. B. 1S22, ae. 88. Sarah m. John Hooper 1766.— Noah of A. m. wid. Sally Crane 1819, D. of Joshua Pratt. — Samuel m. Lydia Cox 1S20. — Sally m. Peleg Osborn 1812. — James Jr. of Abington m. Sarah Benson 1808. — Noah of Boston m. Polly White 1808.— Mary m. Samuel Gary 1704. — Mercy m. Jacob Washburn 1761. — Joshua m. Lucinda, D. of Thomas Latham, 1783. — Anna m. Jacob Whitmarsh Jr. 1784 — Olive m. Rev. Wm. Reed 1784. — Samuel Jr. m. Abigail Porter 1786. — Jacob Jr. m. Zerviah Whitmarsh 1787. — Debo. m. Thos. Hersey 1793. — Achish m. Susanna Hersey 1799. POPE. — Ichabod Pope (from Dartmouth, now Fairhaven per- haps) settled in S. B., near the bridge, called after him Pope's Bridge : his w. was a wid. Pope, who had a s. Thomas by her first husband. They had Benjamin, Freeman, Mercy, and perhaps others: he d. 1795. Thomas m. Huldah, D. of Sam'l 35 274 POPE.— PORTE It. Edson, 1782, and went to Fairhaven, and liis son Henry keeps the Hotel in Halifax. — Benjamin Est], m. Mary Pierce of Scit. 1792, and had Benjamin Pierce, Hannah, and Orra. Benjamin P. m. Experience, D. of Silvanus Pratt. — Hannah m. Holman Keith. — Orra m. Kenelm Winslow. — Freeman m. Hannah Thayer 1795, and went to Enfield, and had Ichabod, William, Solon, Lavinia, and others perhaps; Lavinia. m. Charles Pratt 1821, — Mercy m. Freeman Pope of New Bedford 1797. 2. Joseph (from N. Bedford) lived awhile in S. B., and went to Ware, and thence to the State of N. York : he had Thankful, (who m. Cornelius Thayer 1796), and others. — Nabby Pope m. Isaac Washburn 1807. PORTER.— Rev. John Porter (s. of Samuel and Mary of Abington, born 1716, and grandson of John, who m. Deliver- ance! D. of Nicholas Byram, 1660) gra. IT. U. 1736, and settled in the ministry at N. B. 15th Oct,, 1740, m. Olive Johnson of Canterbury, Conn., and had one D. Olive 1749, and she and her D. both d. the same year : she se. 23. He then m. Mary Hunt- ington of Lebanon, Conn, and had John 1752, Olive 1753, Hunt- ington 1755, Jonathan 1756, Eliphalet 1753, Mary 1762, Sibil 1766 : he d. Mar. 12, 1802, se. 86. John gra. Yale Coll. 1770, was a major in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards went to the West Indies, and there died. — Olive m. John Crafts 1790. — Huntington gra. H. U. 1777, and settled in the ministry at Rye, N. H., and is now living in Roxbury very aged. — Jonathan gra. H. U. 1777, went on board a privateer as a Surgeon and was lost.— Eliphalet, D. D., gra. H. U. 1777, and settled in the min- istry at Roxbury, and d. 1833, leaving no children. — Mary m. Rev. Thomas Crafts 1786, minister at Princeton, and afterwards Mid. — Sibil d. single, at Princeton, while on a visit to her sister. 2. Samuel (s. of Samuel and Sarah (Joslyn) of A., b. 1727, m. Hannah Green 1758, and settled in E. B., and had Samuel 1759, Betteris 1761, Abigail 1763. He m. wid. Ruth Reed 1764, and had Ruth 1766 : he d. 1811, oe. 84. Abigail m. Samuel Pool Jr. 1786.— Ruth m. James Reed 1784. 3. Joseph, born 1730, (brother of Samuel 2.) m. Elizabeth Burrill 1753, and settled in St. Corner, and had Elizabeth 1753, Joseph 1755, Hannah 175S, Robert 1762, Isaac 1765, Content 1767, Mehitabel 1769, Libeus, Cyrus: he d. 1804, se. 74. Eliz- abeth m. Samuel Linfield. — Hannah m. Jona. Battles.— Content m. Wm. Glover. — Mehitabel m. Daniel Brown 1797. — Joseph m. a Capen and had no ch. — Capt. Robert m. a Gay, and had Robert, John, Joseph, Betsy, Sally and Fanny. Robert m. a Capen. — Isaac m. a Packard, and had Rodolphus, Samuel, Reuben, Mar- tin, Galen, Susanna, Sybil and Anna. Susanna m. a Thompson ; Sybil m.'a Noyes. — Lebbeus settled in Wrentham, Mass. — Maj. Cyrus m. a French, and had Ahirah, Cyrus, Luther, Olive, Re- becca, Mehitabel, and Eliza Ann. Olive m. Caleb Copeland Jr. 4. Ebenezer (brother of the 2 preceding, b. 1731) m. Lydia PORTER.— POWERS.— PRATT. 275 Loring of Plympton 1754, and had Sarah 1756, Lydia 1758, Molly 1760, Olive 1763, Susanna 1765. 5. James Porter and his wife Mary had Polly 1778, Abigail 1779 at A., Hannah 1781 and James 1788, both at Plainfield; Sarah 1792 at A. Hannah Porter m. Nathaniel Reynolds Jr. of Sidney, Me. 1811. 6. John 2d (s. of John of Abington) m. Susanna (or Susa) D. of Ephraim Groves, 1790, settled in E. B., and had Allen Mar- shall, who m. Betsy Beals 1816. Esther m.Abel Packard 1751. — Jona. Porter m. Mary Chipman of Halifax 1763.— John Jr. m. Martha Perkins 1764.— Hezekiah of Windsor m. Sarah Carver 1757. — Hannah m. Judah Wood 1757. — Adam m. Deborah Gannett 1776, and Sarah Hunt 1806. — Sarah m. Abijah Snow of Abington. — Abigail m. Levi Keith 3d, 1797.— Nathaniel of Halifax m. Celia, D. of Mark Phillips. — Abigail (sister of Rev. John) m. Capt. Isaac Packard 1745, and her sister Hannah m. Dea. Barnabas Tomson of H. — Polly m. William Fullerton 1796. — Mary m. Josiah Sears of H. 1S1 7.— Samuel m. Sally Gill of C. 1817.— Sarah of H. m. Sea- bury Child Hathaway 1818. — Sarah m. Daniel Whitman 1819. — Lydia of A. m. Edvv'd Vinton 1820. — Clifford and Mercy Porter had Bathsheba 1786. — Milicent m. John Battles 1816. — Rebecca Wood Porter m. Charles Lincoln 1816. POWERS.— Edward Powers m. Phillis Bartlett 1753, and had Edward 1753, Samuel 1755, Bethiah 1757, Keziah 1759, Roland 1760*, Betty 1762, Noah 1764, Silvia 1766*, Daniel 1769. She d. 1771, and he m. Betty Whately 1772, and had Silvia 1773, Roland 1775. Betty m. Capt. Edward Hayward 1802.— Noah m. Rhoda Williams 1787, and had Cyrus 1787, Edward 1789 — Keziah m. Prince Ford 1779. — Mary Powers m John Burr 1748. — Mary Powers d. 1756. — Katharine Powers d. 1760. PRATT.— Jo. Pratt (from Weymouth) settled in S. B. a. 1705, having with Richard Davenport bought the farm that was Guido Bailey's, near where Zechariah Whitman afterwards lived in 1702. He sold his share of the mill at Little Comfort, Abing- ton, 1704, and named himself of Weymouth : he lived to be very aged: his will dated 17-55; he d. 1765: he left a widow Anna (Richards), m. 1721, a 2d wife : she d. 1766. He had Joseph, Na- thaniel, Benjamin, Solomon, David, Samuel, Sarah. Sarah m. Ebenezer Snow a. 1728. — Nathaniel m. Sarah, D. of Benjamin Snow probably, and had Seth 1729, and Anna. His w. d. a. 1743, and he m. Hannah, D. of Lot Conant 1745, and d. 1749. — Anna m. John Packard 1760. — The mother of Nathaniel's wife Sarah above, was Sarah, D. of Samuel Allen, and first m. Jonathan Cary and then Benjamin Snow. (See Benjamin Snow.) 2. Joseph (s. of Joseph 1.) m. Lydia Leonard 1712, and had Joseph, Jonathan, Job, Lydia, Susanna, Hannah, Tabitha, Char- ity, Deliverance, Abigail. He d. 1753: he left a 2d wife Alice, D. of Dea. Thomas Hayward, m. 1749. She was mother of 276 PRATT. Capt. Thomas Cushman : she d. 1803, se. 96. Lydia m. Benja- min Mehurin 1731. — Susanna m. James Richards 1740. — Han- nah's will and d. 1764. — Tahitha m. Seth Hayward 1748. — Charity m. Jeremiah Washburn 1754. — Deliverance m. Amasa Rickard 1759. — Abigail m. Edward Curtis 1759. 3. Benjamin (s. of Joseph 1.) m. .Sarah, D. of Henry King- man, if 19, and had Benjamin, Nathan, John, Bethiah, Susanna, Silence, Ann : his will 1753; d. 1762. Bethiah m. Josiah Me- huren 1769. — Silence m. John Muxam 1748. — Ann m. Azariah Hayward 1768.— Susanna d. 1761. The wid. d. 1767.— Benja- min m. Lydia Harlow 1741. 4. Dea. Solomon (s. of Joseph 1.) m. Sarah, D. of Isaac John- son, 1719, and had Sarah 1721, Abihail, Mary, Solomon 1729, Ebenezer 1731, Hannah, Isaac 1736, Daniel 1741 : his will and d. 1757. Sarah m. Nathan Perkins perhaps 1752. (See Nathan Perkins 7.) — There was a Sarah who died 1767. — Ebenezer m. Abial, widow of John Alger and D. of John Johnson, 175S: he also m. Bulah, D. of Jonathan Washburn, 1760: he settled in Middleborough. — Hannah m. Timothy Hayward 1767. — Isaac m. Catharine Caswell 1758.— Daniel died (a soldier) 1778, and Hez. Hooper settled his estate 1779. — Abihail m. John Conant 1746. — Daniel's wid. Mary m. Capt. John Shaw of Raynham 1779. — Daniel m. a Patten of Conn. 5. David (s. of Joseph 1.) m. Joanna, D. of Ebenezer Allen, 1722, aud settled in E. B., and had Rebeckah 1724, Joanna 1726, Dorcas 1728, David 1729, Deborah 1732, Abner 1734. His wife d., and he m. widow Ann Leonard (she was a Bryant probably) 1738, and had Ruth 1740, Peter 1746, Ann 1747, Thomas 1750: he d. 1790, ae. 91. Rebecca m. Elisha Allen 1745. — Joanna m. Phineas Conant 1749. — Deborah m. Joseph Orcutt 1751. — Ruth m. Obadiah Bates 1762. — Dorcas m. James Lovell 1754. — Thos. m. a Morton, and settled in Titicut. 6- Samuel (s. of Joseph I.) m. Bethiah, D. of Nicholas Byram, 1729, and settled in E. B., and had Mehitabel, Samuel, Paul, Silas, Bethiah 1747. She d. 1774, se. 65.— Mehitabel m. David French, and afterwards Benjamin Price 1782. — Bethiah m. Win. Daniels of Abington 1767. — The family went westward. 7. Jonathan (s. of Joseph 2.) m. Elizabeth, D. of Ebenezer French, 1740, and had Jonathan 1741, Lucy, Cornelius 1748, Elizabeth, who m. Andreas Vinacea 177S, and went to South Brimfield, now Wales; Jeremiah 1753, Ebenezer 1757: he d. 1775, she 1778. — Ebenezer m. Charity Besse 1780. — Jeremiah m. Ann Bolton 1777. 8. Job (s. of Joseph 2.) m. Mary, D. of Josiah Washburn, 1757, and had Sarah 175S, and Lydia, who m. Azor Howe 1787 : Wid. Mary d. 1804, oc. 77. — Sarah Pratt m. Barnabas Blossom 1778. 9. Nathan (s. of Benjamin 3.)m. Sarah Harlow 1745, and had Sarah and Abigail, he d. 1750. Abigail ra. Benjamin Benson PRATT. 277 1770.— Perhaps the wid. in. Nathan Perkins 1752.— (See Dea. Solomon 4.) 10. John (s. of Benjamin 3 ) m. Martha, D. of Hugh Mehu- ren, and had Olive 1751, Levi 1754, Bathsheba 1759, Mary 1760. Olive m. Lazarus Hathaway 1774. — John Pratt m. Sarah Pierce 1751. 11. Solomon (s. of Solomon 4.) m. Mary, D. of John Keith, 1761, and had Mary 17(52: his w. d. 1764, and he m. Abihail, D. of James Hooper, 1767, and had Nancy, and perhaps others. — Mary m. Ebenezer Perkins 17S2. — Nancy m. Timo. Conant 1788. 12. David (s. of David 5.) m. Abigail, D. of William Bowditch, 1753, and had Mary 1756, Oliver 1757, Jeremiah 1760, Allen 1766. She d. 1783, se. 51, and he m. widow Phebe Atwood (she was a Gloyd of Abington) 1784, and had David 1787, Isaac 1790 : he d. 1810, as. 81 ; she 1817, se. 70. Mary m, Joshua Pratt 1783. Jeremiah removed early. — Allen gra. H. U. 1785, and settled in the ministry at Westmoreland, N. H. — David m. Mary, D. of Seth Hobart 1815, and had David, and d. 1817, fe. 30.— Isaac m. Nancy Pratt of Carver 1813, and had George W. and Oliver. — David 3d m. Mary Weld of Me. 13. Abner (s. of David 5.) m. Martha, wid. of Henry Cary and D. of Dr. Joseph Byram, 1764, and had Nathan 1765, Susanna 1768 : he removed to S. B.— Nathan m. Lois Fuller 1786.— Su- sanna m. James Richards 1798. 14. Peter (s. of David 5.) and his w. Amy had Samuel 1775, Rebeckah 1777, Molly 1779. 15. Dea. Seth (s. of Nathaniel and g. s. of Joseph 1.) was ex'or. and residuary legatee of his grandfather's will, m. Han- nah, D. of Joseph Washburn, 1752, and had Nathaniel 1754, Joseph 1756, Nehemiah 1757, Simeon 1759, Seth, Silvanus, Asa, Chloe, Joanna : he d. 1795, 35. 66. Nehemiah d. 1778, and a D. d. 1778. — Joseph went westward. — Seth gra. H. U. 1785, and d. young. — Chloe m. Jeremiah Conant 1793. — Joanna m. Adam Besse 1791, and Isaac Keith 1797. 16. Oliver (s. of David 12.) m. Susanna, D. of Nathaniel Lowden, 1787, and had Allen, Susanna 1794. His w. d. 1802, 33. 36, and he m. Rebecca Ford 1805 : he also afterwards m. Thankful Ford, sister of his 2d. w. Rebecca : he d. 1832, 33. 75. Allen was a mariner and master of a vessel. — Susanna d. 1816, 33. 22. 17. Nathaniel (s. of Dea. Seth 15.) m. Betty, D. of Ezekiel Washburn, 1778, and had Sally, Hannah, Betsy, Elijah, Alber- tina, Seth, Chloe, Nathaniel. Sarah m. Isaac Swift 2d, 1797. — Hannah in. Seth Conant 1801. — Betsy m. David Waterman 1802, and Daniel Hudson 1822. — Seth m. Lucinda Conant 1816. — Chloe m. Alvan Crossman 1813, and afterwards Nahum Mitchell of R., s. of Bradford Mitchell. — Nathaniel m. Lucy Thomas of Marshfield. 18. Capt. Simeon (s. of Dea. Seth 15.) m. Sarah, D. of Judge 278 PRATT. Benj. Willis, 1791, and had Simeon 1795, Charles 1794, Henry W. 1797, Benjamin W. and Sarah twins. — Simeon m. Alice Waterman. — Charles m. Lavinia, D. of Freeman Pope, 1821. — Henry W. m. Clarinda Leonard 1821. — Benj. W. m. Joanna Lucas. — Sarah m. Jabez Harden. 19. Silvanus (s. of Dea. Seth 15.) in. Experience, D. of Oliver Alden, 1803, and had Experience, who m. Benjamin P. Pope; and Mary, who m. Benjamin Crooker. 20. Capt. Asa (s. of Dea. Seth 15.) m. Lydia, D. of Benjamin Sprague, 1799, and had Harriet M. and Lusanna T.: he d. 1831. Harriet M. m. John E. Howard Esq. 1821. — Lusanna T. m. Maj. dishing- Mitchell 1822. 21. Elijah (s. of Nathaniel 17.) m. Naomi, D. of Robert Wade, 1813, and had Betsy 1813, Susanna 1815, Enoch, Loisa. 22. Joshua Pratt (s. of William of Abington) m. Experience Nash 1728, and settled in E. B. a. 1740, and had Mary, Sarah 1734, Hannah 1737, all born in A., Experience 1741, Joshua 1743: he d. 1772, a?. 67; she 1773. Mary m. Nathaniel Rams- dell 1753. — Hannah m. Samuel Allen 175S. — Experience m. Nathaniel Lowden 1762. 23. Joshua (son of Joshua 22.) married Mary, D. of David Pratt, 1783, and had William 1784, Nabby 1785, Polly 1787, Sarah 1789, Dexter 1791: he died IS13, se. 70; she 1828, a?. 72. William m. Celia, D. of Nathan Whitman, 1816.— Nabby m. Eleazar Whitman Jr. 1812. — Dexter m. Polly, D. of Benja- min Pincin. — Sarah m. Spencer Crane of Canton 1809, and af- terwards Noah Pool of Ab. 1S19. 24. William Pratt and his w. Polly had Albert 1811, William 1813, Anthony 1815. 25. Robert Pratt and his w. Rebecca had Cotton 1785, Eben- ezer 1789. 26. John Pratt settled in N. B. a. 1737, and had Barnabas, John, Thomas, Consider, Jesse, Margery, Priscilla. Margery Pratt m. Thomas Tribou 1746. — Priscilla m. a Smith. 27. Barnabas (s. of John 26.) m. Isabel, D. of Walter Downey, 1750, and had Thaddeus, Barnabas, Catharine, Mary, Isabel, Susanna. Thaddeus m. Rachel, D. of Jabez Churchill, 1777, and Barnabas m. Ruhama, D. of Levi French, 1787, and both went to Me. — Catharine m. Jeremy Thayer 1780. — Mary m. Asa Battles. — Isabel m. Levi Brannock 1790. — Susanna m. Simeon Davie 1788. He d. 1788, and she went to Hebron, Me., with her son-in-law Davie, and lived to be 102 years old or more. 28. Thomas (s. of John 26.) m. Mercy Jones, and had Micah 1756, Consider 1759, Thomas 1761, Margery 1764, Lot 1767, Mercy 1769, Patience 1771, Noah 1774 : shed'. 1777; he a. 1781. Consider d. in the army. — Lot m. Polly Aldrich 1787, and he and Noah went to Vt. — Margery m. John Bolton 1787. — Mercy m. a Spear. — Patience m. John Crane 1793. 29. Thomas (s. of Thomas 28.) m. Susanna, D. of Seth Thayer, PRATT— PRICE. 279 1788, and had Edward, Asa, Arba, Silvia, Azuba, Rebecca, Hen- rietta, Susanna, Polly, Emily, Abigail. Asa m. Lydia Humphry 1815.— Azuba m. Simeon Dunbar 2d of II. 1813. 30. Cornelius (s. of Jonathan 7.) m. Martha, D. of Jonathan Leonard, and bail Jonathan, Martha, Leonard, Ebenezer, Corne- lius, Lucy. Jonathan m. Deborah, D. of Ebenezer Hathaway, 1817.— Martha in. Jabez Vaughn of Md. 1817.— Leonard m. Clarissa, D. of Silvanus Leonard, 1818. — Ebenezer m. aTomson of Halifax. — Cornelius m. Lusanna Tomson. — Lucy m. Thomas Cushman. Phineas and Joshua Pratt came over in the 3d ship, Ann, and were among the forefathers at Plymouth, and probably ancestors of most of the name in the Old Colony ; and Benaijah Pratt admitted Freeman 16.54. — John Pratt was in Bridgewater 1699. Elizabeth Pratt m. Samuel Staples 1704. — Nathaniel m. Sarah, D. of Nehemiah Allen, 1734, Hannah m. Napthali Byram 1744. James of E. m. Martha, D. of John Willis, 1733. — A Pratt m. Margerie, D. of Josiah Leonard. — Joseph and Enoch were soldiers 1775. — Enoch m. Salome Richard 1784. — Sile m. An- thony Pierce 1778. — Charity of Norton m. John Davenport 17G3. — Ebenezer m. Ann Dyer 1717. — Olive m. Josiah Torrey 1782. — Matilda m. Isaac Allen 1796. — Mercy m. Alpheus Orcutt 1S02. — Ebenezer of Weymouth in. Waitstill Washburn 1720. — Joseph m. Elizabeth French 1738. — Huldah m. Benjamin Reed of Cummington, 1778. — Huldah m. John Carver Jr. 1795. — Molly of A. m. Wm. Hearsey 1778. — Wid. Hannah m. Sam'l Noyes 1771. — Wid. Hannah m. Ebenezer Campbell 1764. Deborah m. Jonathan Ames 1780. — Zebedee of'M. m. Dardana Keith 1763. — Lavinia m. Timothy Willis 1786. — Benjamin m. Olive Perkins 17S9. — Phebe m. Nehemiah Leonard 1792. — Han- nah m. Dea. Isaac Willis 1732. — Noah m. Desire, D. of Joseph Cole 1777. — Lovicy m. Job Staples Bryant 1793. — William of E. m. Amity Brett 1797. — Elijah m. Sibil Dunbar 1798. — Nehe- miah m. Chloe Rickard 1793. — Calvin of M. m. Clarissa Keith 179S.— Sally of M. m. Jeremiah Keith Jr. 1801.— Isaac of M. m. Naomi Keith 1S04.— Jona. of H. m. Nabby Phillips 1821 — Lydia m. Charles Wilbor of E. 1813.— Zebulun K. of M. m. Su- sanna Keith 1814.— Judith B. m. Daniel E. Willis 1815.— Sarah d. 177Sin S. B.— Elizabeth d. in S. B. 1794, 33. 71— Hannah m. Charles Tomson 1H16. — Sarah m. Ephraim Thomas 1739. — Consider of H. m. Mary, D. of David Thayer. — Samuel of St. m. Eleanor Whitman 1764. — Molly m. Amasa Tribou 1780. PRICE. — Benjamin Price (from Dorchester) was a soldier under Gen. Winslow, 1755, at Nova Scotia, and settled in S. B., and m. Silence, D. of Nathaniel Hayward, 1743, and had Mary 1744, Silence 1746, Sarah 1748, Hannah 1750, Benjamin 1753, Lydia 1755, Betty 175S, Susanna 1761. His wife d., and hem. Mehitabel, wid. of David French and D. of Samuel Pratt, 1782 : he d. 1805, se. 85 ; she d. 1804, se. 65.— One D. m. a Palmer- Sarah m. Ebenezer Colwell 1769 — Hannah m John Pool of H. 280 PRYOR.— RAMSDELL.— RATCHFORD, &c. 1777. — Betty m. Capt. Nathaniel Soper of Hanson 1782. — Ben- jamin m. Ruth, wid. of Jacob Washburn, 1805, and had Benjamin, who m. a D. of Timothy Harlow. PRYOR, or PRIOR.— Joli n Pryor (probably from Duxbury, and s. of Joseph, who d. there 1692) settled early in E. B.; m. Bethiah, D. of Samuel Allen, and had Joseph, Hannah, Sarah, Betbiah, and d. 1742. Hannah m. William Phillips 1718.— Sarah m. Theodosius Moore 1725. 2. Joseph (s. of John above) m. Ann Moore, and had Isaac 1726, Mary 1729, Martha 1736, Sarah 1739: he d., and his wid. m. James Allen. — Mary m. Joseph Latham 1748. — Martha m. John Hanmer 1760. — Sarah m. Josiah Fohes Jr. 1766, and then John Eaton of M. 1780, and afterwards Joseph Bassett 1796 : and she d. 1S39, as. 100.— Eliphaz Pryor of Dux. m. Hannah, D. of Josiah Howard. They all descended probably from Thomas Pryor of Scit., who d. 1639, leaving Sam'l and Thomas in Eng., and Joseph, Eliza- beth, Mary, John and Daniel here. RAMSDELL. — Nathaniel Ramsdell (from Pembroke) settled in E. B., and m. Mary, D. of Joshua Pratt, 1753, and had Daniel 1754, Matthew 1756, James 1758, Joseph 1761. Daniel m. Elizabeth Buck, and had Betsy 1777, and d. 1779 ; and his w. m. Ebenezer Noyes 1795. — Matthew m. Mary, and James m. Eunice, Ds. of Jonathan Allen of Braintree, and both went to Cummington. — Joseph m. Lydia Gloyd of A. 1787, and had Nathaniel 17S9, Nancy 1791, Lydia 1794, Mary 1797, Joseph 1806. Nathaniel m. Sally, D. of Josiah Johnson, 1812.— Nancy and Lydia m. David Brown 1812 and 1818. — Mary m. John P. Reed 1816. Mary m. William Whiting 1748. — Gideon m. Sarah Farrington 1736 —Samuel had Gershom 1750, Martha 1752, in E. B.— Jo- seph had Sarah 1749 in E. B. — Simeon's w. d. in E. B1. 1781. — John m. Hannah Allen 1784. — Charles m. Betty Tirrell 1783. — Lot m.Lucinda Gannett 1794. — Noah m. Hitty Whitmarsh 1790. Lucy m. James Dorrein 1797. — Levi of Milton m. Amie Dunbar 1801. — Noah m. Betsy Allen 1818. — This name was sometimes written Ramsden on early records. RATCHFORD.— James Ratchford, or Radsford, was early in E. B., (Hanson now perhaps), and m. Margaret Balls 1738, and had James 1739, Thomas 1741, William 1748, John 1750, Walter 1752. RATHBURN.— Rev. Valentine Wightman Rathburn settled in W. B. over the Baptist Society : his wife Hepzibah : he had Sukey Lethridge 1801, Samuel Carpenter 1805. Hannah Rath- burn of Bellingham m. Barzillai Hayward 1813. REED, or READ. — Samuel and Mary Reed: she was a Davis; m. 1705: had Mary 1706; (m. Ebenezer Shaw 1733,) and Samuel 1707. Samuel m. Elizabeth, D. of Nathaniel Hay- ward, 1737. — The wid. m. Timothy Hayward 1730. 2. Joseph and Mary had Mary 1741. — These two families were REED. 281 from Abington probably, and Samuel might have lived in Abing- ton, as a great part of it then belonged to Bridgewater. 3. Hezekiah (s. of James) m. Deborah, D. of Isaac Tirrell of A., and had James, Isaac, Jeremiah, Calvin, Joseph, Jared, and Nancy. Jared m. Mehitabel Gardner 1811, and Electa Phillips, 2d w. — Joseph m. Charlotte Stetson 1S07. — Calvin m. Hannah Lowden 1807.— Wid. Sarah Reed d. 1811, ce. 75. 4. Ezekiel and his wife Mary had Polly 1769, Zelotes 1771, Ezekiel 1772, Zebulun 1774, Hannah 177G, Olive 1777, Jesse 1778, Charles 1780, Abraham 1782, Briggs 1784. Jesse m. Han- nah, D. of Caleb Hayward 1800. 5. Rev. John, D. D. (s. of Rev. Solomon of Titicut) m. Han- nah Sampson 1780, and settled in W. B.; ord. 7th June, 1780, and had John 1781, Daniel 1783, Solomon 1788, Hannah 1790, Sally 1793*, Caleb 1797, Sampson 1S00. She d. 1815, and he m. again. John gra. B. U. 1803, and m. Olive, D. of Abiezer Alger Esq. 1809, and settled in Yarmouth, Co. of Barnstable, as an At- torney ; now, and for many years past, Member of Congress. — Daniel m. Nancy Foster of Mid. 1812. — Solomon m. Abigail, D. of George Howard, 1811. — Hannah m. Jonathan Copeland 3d 1S18. — Caleb and Sampson went to Boston ; both gra. H. U.; Caleb 1817, Sampson 1818. 6. Timothy Esq. (bro. of Rev. John 5.) settled also in W. B., m. Hannah, D. of Caleb Kingman, 1788, and had Caleb King- man 1789*, d. 1796 ; Caleb Kingman 1799, d. 1837, unmarried : the father, Timothy, d. 1813. 7. Jonathan (s. of Ebenezer of Abington) m. Deborah, D. of John Porter of Abington, and settled in E. B., and had Mary 1789, Jonathan Loring 1791, John Porter 1793, Deborah 1795, Elizabeth 1797, Thaxter 1800, Ebenezer 1801, Clarissa 1S05, Almira 1806, David Porter 1808. Jonathan L. m. Charlotte Brown of Abington 1816. — John Porter m. Polly, D. of Joseph Ramsdell 1S16. — Deborah m. Jonathan R. Gurney of A. 1816. 8. Ezekiel (s. of Ezekiel 4.) m. Rebecca, D. of Jesse Edson, 1794, and had Emma Corbett 1795, Lydia 1797, Josiah 1799, Joseph Edson 1801, Edwin 1804, Charles Briggs 1806.— Emma C. m. Jacob Tirrell 1813. — Josiah m. Jennet, D. of John Keith 1820. 9. James and his w. Rebecca had Andrew Barton 1798. 10. Isaac (s. of Hezekiah 3.) m. Sally, D. of Peleg Stetson, 1S03, and had Sally 1803, Isaac 1805, Nahum 1806, Dexter 1809, James Baxter 1815. 11. John (s. of Simeon) m. Lucy Lucas, and had Zadock 1750 in E. B. Zadock m. Lucy Gardner, and had Olive 1773, Miriam, Rachel, Bela, Rhoda, Simeon, John, Obed, Luther, Anna, Lucy, Polly : he removed to Pembroke. — Olive m. Samuel P. French 1801 — Rachel d. 1782, a?. 26.— Bela m. Polly, D. of Jonathan Beals, 1793 : she d. 1795, a-. 25. 12. Joseph (s. of Hezekiah 3.) m. Charlotte, D. of Peleg 36 282 REA— REYNOLDS. Stetson, 1807, and had Lucius 1808, Aaron 1811, Charlotte Tir- rell 1814. 13. Joshua Reed, from Abington, lives in E. B.; his children are Joshua, Daniel N., John, Mehitabel, Deborah. Mai'v m. Simeon Gannett 1775. — Ezekiel Reed m. Hannah Beal 1742.— Samuel P. of A. in. Polly Bates 1816.— Rebecca, member of ch. E. B. 1743.— Mary T.V Ophir Howe 1818.— Oran of A. m. Charlotte Harden 1817. — Lucy m. Pliny Edson 1819. — John Jr. of A. m. Harriet Churchill 1818.— Edwin m. Farozina Glass 1822. — Elizabeth of Scit. m. Seth Gannett Jr. 1821. — Esther m. David Hearsey 1707. — Abigail m. Nat. Whit- aker of Rehoboth 1711. — Sarah m. Hezekiah King 1712. — Ste- phen m. Mary "Whitmarsh 1714. — Ruth m. Seth Whitman 1741. Rebecca m. Nathan Allen 1743. — Wid. Ruth m. Samuel Porter 1764. — Capt. Daniel m. wid. Sarah Dawes 1765. — Obadiah m. Elizabeth Shaw 1770.— Seth m. Thankful Whitmarsh 1773.— Rhoda m. Richard Smith 1773. — Seth m. Mary Lazell 1776. — Naomi m. Obadiah Hearsey 1777. — Ruth m. Adams Bailey 1783. James m. Ruth Porter 1784. — Polly Reed of Plymouth m. a Muxam, and afterwards William Bowen, and lives in E. B. — Frederick Jr. of Ran. m. Sally Packard 1797. — Sarah of E. m. Lem'l Lathrop 1794. — Rachel of Pern. m. Isaac Snell 1S00. — Sally of M. m. Amos Keith Jr. 1801. — Ezekiel m. Hannah Lit- tlefield of R. 1S07. — Jane m. Daniel Bates 1810.— Abiah m. Jane Gurney 1814. REA. — Jeremiah Rea and Mary his wife had Daniel Putnam and Israel Fuller 1798, John Flavel 1S01. RE YNOLDS.— Nath'l Reynolds Esq. (s. of Nath'l of Boston) settled in N. B.; m. Hannah Hartwell 1739, and had Philip 1740, Jonas 1742. She d., and he m. Mary Tolman, and had Timothy 1746, Hannah 1750, Mary 1754, Nath'l 1757, David 1759, Silence 1760, Jonathan 1764, Cynthia 1769: he removed to Vassalbo- rough, Me., with his 5 youngest children. Hannah m. William Packard 1769. — Mary m.Dea. Ebenezer Packard 1774. — Jona. in. Anna, D. of Jeremiah Thayer, 1794, and went to Sidney, Me.— Nath'l m. Bethiah, D. of Levi Keith, 1777. 2. Thomas (brother of Nathaniel above) m. Elizabeth Turner 1748, and had Amy 1749*, Joseph 1751, Amy 1753, Elizabeth 1755, Susanna 1757, Martha 1759, Thomas 1762, Josiah 1766 : he d. 1795, a?. 77. Amy m. Silas Dunbar 1772. — Susanna m. Oliver Howard 1780. — Martha m. Capt. Parmenas Packard 1778.— Thomas m. Tabitha, D. of Jeremiah Thayer, 1785, and went to Me. — Josiah m. a Phillips and went to Vermont. Nathaniel of Boston, father of the two brothers above, m. Mary, D. of Thomas Snell, and when he d. the wid. came back with her children, and she m. David Ames 1722. 3. Philip (s. of Nathaniel 1.) m. Hnnnah, D. of Win. Packard, 1765, and had William 1767, Hannah 1769, Charity 1771, Philip, and Polly. He d„ and she in. Enos Thayer 1782. — Charity m. Leonard Orcutt 1797. — Polly m. Oliver Belcher 179S. — William REYNOLDS.— RICHARDS. 283 m. Martha, D. of Capt. Zebedee Snell, 1791, and went to Me. — Philip went to St. 4. Jonas (s. of Nathaniel 1.) m. Anna, D. of Luke Perkins, a. 17G3, and had Anna 1769, Jonas 1772, Isaac 1774, John, David P., Jonathan, Pollv. Anna m. Josiah Perkins Jr. 1790. — Polly m. Isaac French 1800.— Wid. Anna m. Dea. Elijah Snell 1798.— John m. Falley Wales of St. 1802.— David P. m. Sarah, D. of Andrew Bartlett of Piymou, 1818, and settled in E. B. 5. Timothy (s. of Nathaniel 1.) and his w. Rebecca had Han- nah 1770, Molly 1775: he then went to Vassalboro', Me. G. Joseph (s. of Thomas 2.) m. Jemima, D. of Luke Perkins, 1772, and had Ichabod, Joseph, Daniel, Simeon, Azel, Thomas, Jemima, Olive, Amy, Susanna, Vesta. Capt. Ichabod m, Polly, D. of Isaac Brett, 1796, and went to Minot, Me. — Azel m. Su- sanna Nash IS 12. — Thomas m. Nancy Pike 1819. — Olive m. Joseph Macomber 1793. — Amy m. Ziphion Howard 1803. — Su- sanna m. Capt. Silas Dunbar 1806. — Vesta m. Isaac Clapp 1814. 7. Jonas (s. of Jonas 4.) m. Rebecca, D. of Joseph Hay ward, 1798, and had Martin Luther 1799, Orren 1S01, Anna 1803, Mary 1805, Jo. Hay ward 1808, Rebecca 1814. 8. Isaac (s. of Jonas 4.) m. Mehitabel Ford 1805, and had Polly 1806, Edwin 180S,Nahum 1S09, Benjamin Franklin 1810, Sibil 1814. 9. Joseph (s. of Joseph 6.) m. Martha, D. of Silas Dunbar, 1798, and had Olive 1798, Pamela 1800, Sophia 1802, Oliver 1804, Nancy 180S, Daniel 1810, Susanna 1812, Luke 1815.— Joseph Jr. m. Phebe Whitcomb 1817. 10. Simeon (s. of Joseph 6.) m. Mary, D. of Capt. Zebedee Snell 1809, and had Simeon Otis 1809. Nathaniel and Sarah Reynolds of Boston had Sarah 1687. — Isaac m. Dorothy Seeker of Mid'o., 1707. Elizabeth m. Perez Packard 1803. — Zilpha m. Joshua How- ard 1805. — Nathaniel Jr. of Sidney m. Hannah Porter 1811. RICHARDS. — Benjamin Richards (from Weymouth) settled in W. B., and m. Mehitabel, D. of Isaac Alden, 1711, and had Mehitabel 1712, Joseph 1714, Daniel 1716, James 1718, Sarah 1720. His w. d., and he m. Lydia Faxon, and had John 1723, Josiah 1724, Seth 1726, Ezra 1728, Lydia 1732, Hannah 1736. He d. 1741 : his will makes no mention of James or Seth. James Richards m. Susanna Pratt 1740, on Abington records : both of them there said to be of Br. — Mehitabel m. David Packard Jr. 1737. — Joseph went to St. — Sarah m. AVm. Packard 1740. — Ezra was a schoolmaster. — Lydia m. Dea. Nathan Alden (his 2d wife) 1757.— Hannah m. Dr. Philip Bryant (his 2d wife) 1779. 2. Daniel (s. of Benjamin 1.) m. Mary, D. of David Packard, 1740, and had Daniel 1741*, William 1741*, and a D. 1742*. 3. John (s. of Benjamin 1.) m. Reziah, D. of Capt. Israel Bailey, 1751, and had Sarah 1752,Keziah 1755, Benjamin 1758, Seth 1763, James 1766, Ezra 1768, Tamzin 1770, Lydia 1773, Jennet 1774 : he d. 1813. Sarah m. Joseph Thayer Jr. of St. 284 RICHARDS.— RICHARDSON.— RICKARD. 1795, and afterwards Dea. Zacheus Thayer. — Keziah m. James Inglee 1787. — James and Ezra went westward. — Tamzin m. Jo- seph Snow Jr. 1795. 4. Dea. Josiah (s. of Benjamin 1.) m. Anna Robinson of Raynham 17S1, and had Josiah 1783, Zeba 17S6, Daniel 1788: he d. 1815, se. 90. Zeba m. Polly, D. of Daniel Hartwell 1817.— Daniel in. Lentha, D. of Daniel Hartwell, 1812. 5. Benjamin (s. of John 3.) m. Polly, D. of Richard Bartlett of N. Scotia, 1782, and had Rboda 17S3, Bartlett 1785, Avery 1788, Polly 1792 : he d. 1812, se. 54. Rhoda m. Samuel G. Al- den 1804. — Bartlett was a shipmaster, and d. at sea. — Avery went to Duxbury. 6. Seth (s. of John 3.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Joseph Snow, 1791, and had Betsy 1793, John 1796, Luther 179S, Ward 1801, Ruth 1803 : he d. 1837. John m. Hannah, D. of Jonathan King- man, 1820. — Ward m. Mehitabel, D. of John Brown. Joseph Richards and Sarah of Weymouth : his will 1695 men- tions Joseph, James, Susanna, Sarah, and " all the rest of my sons and daughters" of whom probably Benjamin first above named was one. There was a John and Sarah at Weymouth also who had a s. Benjamin 17S6. There was a family of Richards lived in S. B. — Nathan had Nathan, James, Hannah and Polly twins. — Hannah m. Josiah Edson 1791, — Polly m. Marcus Leonard 1793. — James m. Su- sanna, D. of Abner Pratt, 1798. — Nathan m. Lydia Hayward 1813. — Isaac m. Esther Holbrook 1817. — Anne m. Edward Ben- ton of Prov. 1816. — James of Newton m. Dorothy Packard 1777. — Sarah m. William Davenport 1730. — Joseph m. Mary Hamlin 1742. — Susanna m. Silas Williams 1760. — Timothy of Ded. m. Sarah, D. of Sam'l Edson, 1778. — Milicent m. Silvanus Washburn 1765. — James m. Susanna Pratt 1740. RICHARDSON.— Winslow Richardson lived in E. B., m. Rhoda, D. of Benjamin Johnson, 1763, and had Benjamin 1764, Ruth Holman 1765. His w. d., and he m. Elizabeth, D. of Jo- seph Byram, 1768, and had Susanna 1771, Joseph Byram 1773: he then removed from town. Stepben Richardson m. Ruth, D. of Benjamin Johnson. — Re- beckah Richardson m. Zebulun Packard 1764, and afterwards Silas Kinsley 1774. — Hannah of Leicester m. Joseph Burr 1792. RICKARD, or RECORD.— Thomas Record lived in E. B., and had John 1725 : he was one of the committee for settling the Rev. John An&ier: he lived perhaps in what is now Hanson. 2. ElkanafTRickard lived in S. B., m. Bethiah, D. of Nath'l Conant, 1733, and had Seth 1735, Amasa 1738, Uriah 1740, Ke- turah 1744: he d. 1777. Seth m. Susanna Packard 1757. — Amasa m. Deliverance, D. of Joseph Pratt 1759. — Uriah m. Zil- pha White 1761. 3. Nathaniel lived also in S. B., m. Jerusha, D. of James Dunbar, 1751, and had Daniel 1752, Asher 1754, Elkanah 1759, Ebenezer 1761, Susanna 1763, Rufus 1765. RICKARD.— RIDER.— RIPLEY. 285 4. Jacob and Hannah had Salome 1758, Hannah 1760, Bar- tholomew 1765, d. 17S9: the father d. 1809. Salome m. Enoch Pratt 1784. 5. Salmon Rickard m. Olive, D. of Capt. Elijah Edson 1786, and had Seth 1788, How 1790, Thomas 1794, Calvin 1796, Sal- mon 1799, and went to Mid'o. — This name was often pronounced Ricket. Hannah Rickard m. Josiah Byram L720. — Elizabeth m. John Whitman 1726. — Mehitabel m. Arthur Harris 1730. — Rebecca m. Dea. Seth Allen 1735, and then Dea. Thomas Whitman 1767 : these were all from Plympton. — Joseph of P. m. Lydia Willis 1737. — Samuel m. Mary Bumpus 1749. — Nathan m. Mary Snell 1767. — Elislia Reckords m. Ruth Chamberlin 1775. — Alice m. Joab Willis Jr. 1772.— Sarah m. John Willis 1779.— Betty m. Dea. Noah Edson 1782. — Lucy m. Joshua Washburn 1786. — Chloe m. Nehemiah Pratt 1793. — Hannah m. William Badger 1819. RIDER.— Samuel Rider lived and d. in S. B,, m. Lydia, D. of Benjamin Washburn, 1799, and his s. in law, Benjamin Dar- ling, and his brother Abner Rider, a bachelor, live on the same place. Captain Samuel Rider (from Plymouth) m. a Dunham, and settled and lives in W. B., and has Samuel, Lewis, William, and others. — Samuel m. Anne and Lewis m. Elizabeth, Ds. of Dea. Joseph Kingman. — -William went to N. B. RIPLEY. — William Ripley and his wife, two ss., Abraham and John, and 2 Ds.,came from Hingham, England, and settled here at Hingham 1638 : he probably m. Elizabeth, wid. of Thos. Thaxter, 1654, and d. 1656 : he was ancestor probably of all of the name in this part of the country. — Sarah m. Jeremiah Beal at H. 1654. 1. William Ripley and his w. Mary settled in W. B., and had Margaret, Sarah 1696, John 1698, Martha 1700, William 1702, Samuel 1705, Jonathan 1707, Timothy 1710, Christopher 1712. Sarah m. George Bryant. — Martha m. John Rawson. 2. John (s. of William 1.) m. Deborah, D. of Israel Wash- burn, and had Mary 1730, Waitstill 1732, Deborah 1734. He d., and the wid. m. Nathaniel Bolton 1740, and d. 1759. — Mary m. Amos Hayward 1766. — Waitstill m. Isaac Lee 1751. 3. Samuel (s. of William 1.) m. Abigail, D. of John Bolton, 1736, and had Robert 1737. Abigail, the mother, or a D., m. Stephen Pettingill 1764. 4. Christopher (s. of William 1.) m. Sarah, D. of Maj. Ed- ward Howard, 1737, and had Solomon 1737, Jane 1743, Bethiah 1745. Bethiah m. Jabez Bolton 1765. 5. Solomon (s. of Christopher 4.) m. Miriam Briggs 1758, and had Christopher 1758, Elizabeth 1761, Daniel 1764, Marlbray 1767, Nathaniel 1771, and Deborah : he d. 1809. Marlbray in. Ruth Whiting 1787.— Deborah m. Cyrus Hayward 1S04. 6. Capt. Daniel (s. of Solomon 5.) m. Martha, D. of David 286 ROBBINS— ROBINSON. Harvey, 17^:5, and had Mary 1783, Martha 17S7, Daniel 1791, Susanna 1792, d, 1822; Orra 1795, David H. 1798, Deborah ISO I : he d. 1819. Orra m. Alson Field 1820. Polly in. Siaoa Morse of St. 1804. — Sally of Plympton m. Nathan Hartwell 1789.— Hannah of E.m. Sam'l Edson 3d 1797. Elizabeth m. Jacob Keith 1801. — Lydia of Plympton m. Zeph- aniah Lathrop Jr. 1812. ROBBINS. — Nicholas Robbins was one of the original Pro- prietors of B., but never resided here : was at Duxbury 1640, and d. there a. 1650. He had John, Catharine, Mary, and Han- nah: he gave John half his land at the New Plantation, and the other half to his daughters. 2. John settled here, and had Jeduthun 1667 : he in some way became helpless, for Goodman Turner (George) was ordered to maintain his brother John Robbins 1668. 3. Jeduthun sold his house and land to Sam'l Kinsley a. 1700, " butting on the S. side Town River adjoining the S. E. side of Thos. Washburn's, where his house stands." Robbins had then removed to Plympton, and d. there a. 1726, and had Jeduthun, John, Lemuel, Persis w. of Jona. Wood, Hannah w. of Barna- bas Wood, Elizabeth, Abigail, Mehitabel. 4. Benjamin Robbins and his wife Susanna, D. of Daniel Keith, lived in Titicut, S. B., and had a family, but removed to M., and had Benjamin and Susanna 17S9, Abigail 1791. Ben- jamin m. Patience Morton 1814. — Susanna m. Oliver Keith 18*09. Abigail m. Salmon Keith Jr. 1S14. Betsy of Watertown m. Alfred Whitman 1809. — Moses of Mid. m. Patience Hooper 1777. — Polly, sister of Betsy, d. here 1794, se. 17. ROBINSON.— Gain Robinson (from Ireland) landed at Ply- mouth, lived at Braintree, Pembroke, and finally in E. B., had recommendations from churches in Ireland, Braintree and Pem- broke : his w. was Margaret Watson, by whom he had Alexan- der, Joseph, Gain 1724, Increase 1727, Betty 1728, James 1730, John 1732, Margaret 1735, Mary 1738, Martha 1740, Jane 1742, Robert 1746: he also had by a former w. a s. Archibald, and a D. Susanna who m. Christopher Erskins, an Irishman also, who settled in A. He d. 1763, se. 81 ; she, his 2d wife, 1777, &. 77. His 9 youngest children only were born here, or after the incor- poration of the parish. Alexander m. Hannah White of A. 1745, and had a D. Abigail 1746, and went to Nova Scotia. — Increase m. Rachel Bates of Hingham 1755, and d. in the French war, a Serjeant, under Gen. Winslow at Nova Scotia, between 1755 and 1757 : had no children. — Mary m. Richard Bartlett 1757. — Mar- tha m. Archibald Thompson 1761. — John m. a Studley, and set- tled in Kingston, and had a family : his D. Martha m. Eliphalet Bailey 1782. 2. Joseph (s. of Gain 1.) m. Abigail, D. of Joseph Keith, 1746, and had Joseph 1747, Benjamin 1748, Edward 1750, Su- sanna 1753, Abigail 1755. His w. d., and he m. Hannah, D. of ROBINSON. 287 Isaac Snow, 1759, and had Isaac 17G0*, Hannah 1763*, Snow 1765*. His estate was settled by his wid. and his brother James 1766.— Joseph d. ae. about 20.— Edward d. 1818, ae. 67, a bache- lor.— Susanna m. William Vinton 1774. — Abigail m. Silvanus Lazell 1775. — Isaac lost at sea. — Hannah d. single 1802, oe. 39, burnt in a fit. — Snow d. at West Point in the army 1783, ae. 19. 3. Gain (s. of Gain 1.) m. a Dyer, and had Gain, William, Increase. John, Dyer 1765, Joseph, Ansel, Sally, and Zibeah who m. Daniel Packard and went to Pelham : he d. 1778 of small- pox, 03. 54. Gain m. a Gardner, lived in Hanson or Abington, and had a family. — Sally m. Solomon Johnson 1788. — John m. Molly, D. of Thomas Packard, 1781, and had John, Mary, Daniel, Abiel, Sarah, Zibeah. John, Mary, and Daniel went to Port- land.— Abiel and Sarah went to Cambridgeport. — Sarah m. Sam'l Pond. — Zibeah not m. — Daniel afterwards went to Bangor. 4. James (s. of Gain 1.) m. Jerusha, D. of Ebenezer Bartlett of Duxbury, and had James and Bartlett twins, Watson, Abner, Gain, Clark, Jerusha Bartlett 1753, Margaret 1754, Mary, Eliz- abeth, Jane, Esther, Eleanor, Bethiah, and Martha. — James and Bartlett d. in the revolutionary war. — Watson moved to the westward. — Abner was killed at Saratoga 1777. — The family all moved to Cummington. — Gain was a physician there, and Clark d. there. — Jerusha B. m. Wait Wadsworth of Duxbury. — Mar- garet m. a Fay, and moved westward. — Mary m. David Orr, and went to the 9 Partners. — Elizabeth m. in Cummington. — Jane m. William Johnson 1779. — Esther, Eleanor and Bethiah m. in Cummington. — The father lived first on Clark's Island, and finally lived and d. in Cummington. — He Avas here in 1766, and admin- istered on his brother Joseph's estate. 5. Robert (s. of Gain 1.) m. Bethiah, D. of Isaac Kingman, 1772, and had Samuel, James, and others probably, and went to Cummington. 6. Archibald (s. of Gain 1. probably) no. Mercy, D. of Richard Field 1747, and had Robert 1747, John 1749. 7. Benjamin (s. of Joseph 2.) m. Eve, D. of James Packard, 1770, and had Anna 1771, Deborah 1777, Susanna 1781, Ben- jamin 17S4,Kilborn 1787, Polly 1790, Hodijah 1793. His w. d., 1796, ae. 46, and he m. Keziah, wid. of Elijah Packard and D. of Capt. John Ames, 1798, and had Nabby Lazell 1799, Bethiah Ames 1802, Margaret Watson 1806: he d. 1829, ae. 80; she 1838, fe. 74. Anna m. Uriah Brett 1799.— Deborah m. John Alden 1798. — Susanna m. Ichabod Keith 1802. — Polly m. a Bradbury in Maine, and had a 2d husband Herrick in Boston. — Nabbv L. m. Samuel P. Condon 1821, and d. 1832, ae. 33.— Bethiah A. m. Martin Ramsdell. — Margaret W. m. Samuel P. Condon, his 2d wife. — Kilborn not m. 8. William (s. of Gain 3 ) m. Hannah, D. of Hezekiah Eger- ton, 1780, and had William 1784, Abigail 1786*, d. 1804 ; Mar- cus 1791, Sally 1795, Marv Hitchborn and Maria Dyer 1799 : he d. 1S16; she 1832, ae. 72. William m. Abigail Delano of 288 ROBINSON— ROGERS. Dux. 1812.— Marcus m. Charlotte Barstow of Pem. 1820.— Sally m. Henry Gray, and Mary H. m. James Sidall, both English- men. 9. Dyer (s. of Gain 3.) m. Abigail, D. of Abishai Stetson, 1787, and settled in S. B., and had Clarissa 17S7, Increase 1789, Dyer 1792, Gad 1795, Jacob 1798, Charles, Salome, Abigail, Enoch. Clarissa m. Solomon Perkins 1S13. — Increase m. Han- nah, D. of Benjamin Edson 1812. — Dyer m. a Standish. — Gad m. Margaret Orr, D. of Zenas Keith 1821. — Jacob m. Rhoda W. Chandler of Hanson, and had Caroline E. 1823, Jacob Har- vey, 182G, Lydia Hall 1827.— Charles m. Ann Maria, D. of Zenas Keith. — Salome m. Zenas Keith, Jr. 1821. — Abigail m. Capt. Scott Keith. 10. Capt. Benjamin (s. of Benjamin 7.) m. Mary Packard, D. of his mother-in-law, 1S09, and had Benjamia Rosseter, James Lawrence, Elijah Packard 1816, Mary 1818. James L. d. at sea 1835. 11. Hodijah (s. of Benjamin 7.) m. Silvia, D. of Hugh Orr, and had Lucia Watson, Herbert. Increase Robinson was on a Jury at Plymo. 1683 : perhaps the Taunton and Raynham family descended from him. There was an Increase Robinson who was a Captain in the beginning of the Revolutionary war. — Increase Robinson m. Margaret Bonney 1738. — Abigail m. John Fobes 1704. — Abigail m. Thos. Bibby 1776. — Margaret, D. of Gain Robinson Jr., m. Joseph Wesley 1773. — Anna of Raynham m. Dea. Josiah Richards 1781. — Nabby of Mid. m. John Ripley Hayward 1801, and Clar- issa of Mid. m. him 1802. — Robert m. Chloe Harvey of Free- town 1807. — Mehitabel m. Daniel Perkins 2d 1809. — Perez m. Margaret Tomson of H. 1819. — Zaccheus H. m. Margaret Fille- brown of Mansfield 1819. ROGERS. — John Rogers of Duxbury was an original Pro- prietor of this town, but never lived here. He is the same man who went to Scituate, and finally d. in Weymouth 1661. The family tradition is that he was a descendant of John Rogers the martyr of Smithfield. His ss. were John, Thomas, and Samuel, who settled at Rogers' Brook in Marshfield. 2. Samuel (s. of Thomas of Marshfield) came and settled in East Bridgewater, and m. Betty, D. of Capt. Jacob Allen, (who was killed at Saratoga, near Stillwater, at the capture of Bourgoyne, 1777), 1790, and had Nabby 1790, Charles 1799, Jacob Allen 1804, Thomas Hatch 1S06. Nabby m. William Newhall 1807. — Charles m. Sarah Tomson at Halifax 1821. — Jacob A. m. Lucia, D. of Eleazar Keith. — Thomas H. m. Char- ity Tomson of Halifax 1835, sister of Charles' w., D. of Maj. Nathaniel Tomson. Samuel, the father d. 1838, se. 72; the mother d. 1831, Be. 63. Sarah Rogers m. Josiah Churchill 1781. — There was a Thos. Rogers, one of the forefathers, who came in the first ship, the Mayflower, 1620, and d. the first winter, who probably left a s. RUSSELL.— R YON.— SANGER— SAWIN, &c. 289 Joseph, who is named among those to whom lands were allotted in 1623. Whether he was a relation of John first above named is not ascertained. RUSSELL.— Thomas Russell (from Scotland) first lived at Weymouth, and there m. Abigail Vinton and afterwards settled in E. B., and had Mary, Betsy, Abigail, and Agnes 1775*. — Mary m. Isaac Alden 1781. — Betsy m. Maj. James Barrel! 1785.— Abigail m. Dea. Win. Keith 1789 : he d. 1800, ee. 76 ; she 1802, re. 56. RYON.— Micah (or Michael) Ryon, an Irishman, lived in W. B.: his wife Ruth: he had Nathaniel 1787 (at Scituate), Betsy 1789, William 1791, Isaac 1801. He d. 1811. SANGER.— The Rev. Zedekiah Sanger, D. D., came from Duxbury, where he had been some time settled in the ministry, and was installed in S. B. as colleague with the Rev. John Shaw, Dec. 17, 1788: he was born in Sherburne, gra. H. U. 1771 : his W.Irene Freeman: he had Deborah, Richard, Caroline, Joseph, Olive, Ralph, Samuel, Sarah, Zedekiah, Eliza : he d. Nov. 17, 1820, ae. 73. Deborah m. John Amies Jr. 1799.— Richard era. H. U. 1800, m. Sally Tisdale of Taunton 1S07.— Caroline m. Rev. Samuel Clark 1S10. — Joseph m. Hannah, D. of Dr. Marcy of Plymo. 1812. — Olive m. Geo. Moore of Burlington 1815. — Rev. Ralph gra. H. U. 1808, and m. Charlotte, D. of Ezra Kingman Esq. of E. B. 1817, and settled at Dover, Ms. — Sarah m. a Physi- cian of Providence. 2. Samuel (s. of Rev. Zedekiah 1.) m. Susan, D. of Caleb Alden, but has no children : he remains on the family estate : all the rest of the family moved away. SAWIN. — Dr. Daniel Sawin (s. of Eliphalet) came from Ran- dolph and settled in E. B., m. Hannah, D. of Maj. James Bar- rell, 1810, and had Eliza Russell 1811, Hannah 1814. His w. d., 1S16, and he m. a dishing of Hanson for his 2d wife. He d. 1822, a?. 36. SEABURY. — Barnabas Seabury (s. of Samuel Jr. of Dux- bury) and his w. Mary settled in E. B., and had Rebecca 1723. His w. d., and he m. again, and soon removed from Town. SEALY. — Edward Sealy m. Elizabeth, wid. of James How- ard, and D. of John Washburn, and settled in W. B., and had Benjamin 1693, John 1697 : his "will 169S : names his ss. Benja- min of Easton (or North Purchase) and John of Bridgewater. The family all went to E. John of E. m. Sabrina, D. of Jona. Snow Esq. 181S. — The name is now generally written Seele or Selee. SEARS. — Josiah Sears came from Yarmouth and settled in E. B. about 1711, and m. Mercy, D. of Isaac Harris, and had Jonathan 1714, Mercy 1717, Hannah 1720. His w. d. 1720, and he m. Judith Gilbert 1720, and had Nathaniel 1721, Elizabeth 1725. He removed back to the Cape a. 1725. He lived back of Sam'l B. Allen's, in the old house owned afterwards by Capt. Jona. Bass. — Roland Sears of Ashfield m. Jedidah Conant 1777. 37 290 SEARS.— SEVER.— SHAW. Capt. Elkanah Sears lived in S. B.— Desire of H. m. Benja- min Washburn 1762.— Josiah Sears of H.m. Mary Porter 1817. Abner of M. m. Lydia, D. of Solomon Perkins 1762. SEVER. — Christopher Sever (from Dorchester) settled in E. B., m, Hannah Harden of Hanson 1771, and had Rohert 1772, Ruth 1771, Amos, 1778, Bethaniah 1780, Daniel 1782, Calvin I7~.",, Samuel 1787, Christiana 1790, Amelia 1800, Isabella, Han- nah Wendell. Robert Sever (s. perhaps of Robert) m. Priscilla, D. perhaps of Henry Thornbury Smith, 1818. — Wendell m. Joan Dicker- man of E. 1813. SHAW. — Abraham Shaw (of Dedham) made free 1637: his will on Boston records without date : inventory taken 1638 by Win. Allen and others: Nicholas Byram and Joseph Shaw wit- nesses: sons Joseph and John; Ds. Mary and Martha : John and Martha infants : no wife named, probably d. The ss. had the estate at Dedham, the rest divided among all his child- ren.— Joseph Shaw and Nicholas Byram of Weymouth granted to Robert Mason all their house and grounds in Dedham 1639. — It is supposed Byram m. a D. (Susanna) of Abraham, and that he and Joseph, both then of age, sold their lands in Dedham and the family all removed to Weymouth. — Byram called John Shaw of Weymouth his brother in 1687. John (probably s. of Abraham) and Alice had John, Elizabeth 1655, Abraham 1057, Mary 16(50, Nicholas 1662, Joseph 1664, Alice 1666, Hannah 1668, Benjamin 1670, Abigail 1672, Eben- ezer 1674. Joseph, elder brother of John, had also a family at Weymouth, Joseph, John, &c, and d. 1653. 1. Joseph (s. of John above, born 1664) m. Judith, D. of John and Sarah Whitmarsh : she was born 1669: he came and set- tled in E. B. before 1698. His children were Elizabeth 1687, Joseph 1691, Judith 1693, Abigail 1695, all born at Weymouth, Ruth 1698, Martha 1700, Sarah 1702, Hannah 1704, Ebenezer 1706, John 1708, Zechariah 1711: he d. 1718, as. 54 ; she 1760, as. 91. Elizabeth m. Noah Washburn 1710, and Isaac Harris 1719. — Joseph and Judith were never m. — Abigail m. Daniel Alden 1717 : the late Dr. Ebenezer Alden of Randolph was her grandson. — Ruth m. James Snow a. 1719. — Martha m. Eleazar Alden 1720. — Sarah m. Dea. James Cary 1722. — Hannah m. Isaac Snow 1722, and afterwards John Whitman 1743. 2. Zechariah (s. of Nicholas of Weymouth, who was brother of Joseph 1.) lived and d. in E. B.: his wife Sarah: they both joined the church here 1735: he had Zechariah, Sarah b. here 1735. Zechariah chose his uncle John Shaw of Weymouth for his guardian 1736 ; his father then d. The family perhaps re- turned to Weymouth. 3. Ebenezer (s. of Joseph 1.) m. Mary, D. of Samuel Reed, 1733, and had Mary 1738, Abigail 1740, Hannah 1742, Susanna 1744, Deborah 1746, Huldah 1747, Ebenezer 1752, Betty 1754, Mehitabel 1756: he d. 1776, 33. 70. Mary joined the Ch. 1758, SHAW. 291 and had a dis'n. same year. Abigail m. Silas Harris, and after- wards Jonathan Gannett 1785, and went to Cummington. — Su- sanna m. Pollycarpus Snell 1766. — Deborah m. a Ford of A. Huldah m. John Bisbee 1779. — Ebenezer went to Cummington. Betty d. single 1832, oe. 78. — Mehitabel m. Ebenezer Bisbee 1778. 4. Rev. John (s. of Joseph 1.) gra. H. U. 1729, ord. in S. B., Nov. 17, 1731, m. Ruth, D. of the Rev. Samuel Angier of Wa- tertown, and sister of the Rev. John Angier of E. B., and had Oakes 1736, Bezaliel 1738, William 1741, Eunice 1743, Ruth 1744, Ezra 1746, John 1748, Samuel 1750: she d. 1768, oe. 63; he d. April 29, 1791, te. 82. Oakes gra. H. U. 1758, and settled in the ministry at Barnstable 1760, and d. 1807, a?. 71, and was father of the Hon. Lemuel Shaw C. J. of the S. J. C. of Mass., and of an only D. who m. Maj. Blish of Barnstable. — Bezaliel gra. H. U., 1762, and settled in the ministry at Nantucket, and his only child was \v. of the late Dr. Craigie of Cambridge. — AVilliam, D. D., gra. H. U. 1762, and settled in the ministry at Marshfield 1766, and d. 1816, ae. 75, and had Josiah Crocker and Philander, both settled in the ministry. — Ezra d. 1764. — John gra. H. U. 1772, and settled in the ministry at Haverhill; m. a Smith, sister of President Adams' wife, and was father of Win. S. Shaw, former Clerk of the District Court in Boston, who d. single 1S26 : he d. 1794: his wid. m. Rev. Mr. Peabody of At- kinson, N. H.: he had also a D. who m. Rev. Joseph Felt. — Eunice d. single 1791, 89. 49. — Ruth m. Gen. Nath'l Goodwin of Plymouth 17S2, and was mother of the late Rev. Ezra S. Goodwin of Sandwich, and Anne, w. of Dr. Boutelle. 5. Dea. Zechariah (s. of Joseph 1.) remained on the family estate in E. B., m. Sarah, D. of Daniel Packard 1733, and had Sarah 1734, Ruth 1738, Martha 1740, Daniel 1742, Elizabeth 1744, Judith 1749, Zechariah 1751, Nehemiah 1753: he d. 1790, a). 79; she 1792, ae. 77. Ruth m. Joseph Snow 1759. — Martha d. 1825 not m. — Elizabeth m. Obadiah Reed 1770. — Judith m. John Edson 1770.— Nehemiah m. Molly Hill (or Beal, qu.) 1775. Sarah Shaw in. Elijah Snow in E. B. 17S0. 6. Dr. Samuel (s. of the Rev. John 4.) remained on the family estate, and m. Olive, D. of Zebulun Leonard Esq. of Mid'o. 1781, and had Hannah Whitmarsh, John Angier, Zebulun Leo- nard, Sarah Miller. Hannah W. m. Joseph Ames Jr. 1812. — John A. gra. H. U. 1811, went to the southward, there m. a White ; she d.: he returned again, and m. Mira, D. of Capt. Ephraim Sprague : she first m. John Washburn. — Zebulun L. gra. H. U. 1SI5, and d. at New Orleans July 22d, 1819, se. 24.— Sarah M. m. Col. Abram Washburn. 7. Zechariah (s. of Dea. Zechariah 5 ) m. Hannah, D. of Samuel Bisbee, 1777, and had Joseph, Sarah, Alvan 1785. He d. 1820, £e. 68 ; she 1832, ae. 82. Sarah d. 1S25, oe. 43.— Joseph m. Olive, D. of Samuel Dike 1805. 8. Benjamin (s. of Benjamin and Hannah probably of A., b. •292 SHAW.— SHELLY. 1728) and his wife Susanna had Chloe 1757, John 1760, both bap. in W. B. 9. William (brother of Benjamin next above b. 1730) settled in IV. B., in. Hannah West 1754, and had Hannah, William 1757, Dan 1758, Rhoda 1762, Napthali 1764, Betsy 1766, Micah 1768, and Patience. His w. d., and he m. Dorcas Smith 1773, and had Abigail 1775: he d. 1809, ad. 79; she 1797, se. 64.— Hannah m. Mark Packard 1774. — William m. Deliverance, D. of Ezekiel Washburn, 1778.— William Jr. m. Pamela Rugg of D. 1791.— Dan m. a Perkins of M. and went to Lyme, N. H. — Rhoda m. Benja. Kingman 1783, and went to Winchester. — Napthali gra. Dart. C. 1790, and m. Polly, D. of Dr. John S. Crafts and set- tled in the ministry at Kensington, N. H. — Betsy m. Isaac Mor- ton 1S04. — Patience m. Nath'l Southworth 1793. — Abigail in. Ziba Wood. 10. Micah (s. of William 9.) m. Jane (Jenny), D. of Matthew Kingman 1793, and had Caroline 1794, Newton 1795, Zibeon 1797, Addison, Marcus, Mary Cary, Hannah, Rhoda. Newton m. Olive, D. of Capt. Robert Packard, 1818. — Mary Cary m. Abiel Kingman 1819. 11. James and his w. Margaret Mora m. 1752, had David 1757, James 1760. He afterwards had a D. Eunice bap. in E. B. 1777, and brought a certificate from Milton Church ; and had Marga- ret 1779. 12. John and his w. Silence lived in E. B., and had Hannah, Philip 1771, John 1773: Philip and Hannah bap. in E. B. 1773. 13. Azel Shaw m. a D. of Solomon Alden, and lived in S. B., and had Alexander, Soranus, Charles, Azel, and others. Gideon of Raynham m. Abigail Fobes 1767. — Hannah m. John Haines 1709. — John of Raynham m. Dinah Leach 1761. — Eben- ezer Jr. of Mid'o m. Deborah Keith 1764. — Martha of Mid'o. m. David Hooper 1768. — Mary of Raynham m. Ezra Fobes 1776. — Solomon m. Anna Hayward 1752. — Nathan m. Rosamond Leo- nard 1782. — Chloe of Mid'o. m. Ziba Leonard 1782. — Hannah of Ab. m. Eliab Packard Jr. 1792.— Betsy of Mid'o. m. Bezer Leach 1793. — Silas of Ab. m. Lucy White 1794. — Ruth m. Jacob Washburn 1797. — William m. Molly Crossman 1797. — Sullivan of Mid'o. m. Cynthia Keith 1797. — Experience m. Luther Jen- nison of Conn. 1801. — Alexander m. Sally White of Mid'o. 1801. Hannah of Ab. m. Eliphalet Leach 1806. — Rev. John of Ab. m. Susanna Cary 1807.— Charles m. Lucy Tomson of Mid'o. 1810. Charles m. Lucy Thomas of Mid'o. 1811. — Sarah of Mid'o. m. Azor Harris Esq. 1813. — Elizabeth m. Ephraim Harlow of Mid'o. 1815. — Ebenezer of Mid'o. m. Mary Dickerman 1816. — Zephaniah m. Lucy, D. of Zenas Crooker. — Soranus m. Eliza- abeth M. Alden 1S16.— Susan m. Cyrus Snell 1818.— Hannah m. Lyman Hooper 1S20. — Harriet m. Ford Bearce 1S20. — Mary m. Benjamin Aldrich 1721. — Abigail m. Daniel Copeland 1791. SHELLY.— Abner Shelly m. Melinda, D. of Azor Howe, SHERMAN.— SHEPARD— SHURTLIFF. 293 1812, and had Mary Hartvvell 1813, Ruth Cheesman 1815, Daniel Hartwell 1817. SHERMAN. — Anthony Sherman (his father was John and his mother was a D. or g. D. of Anthony Eames of Marshfield) came from Rochester and settled in E. B. a. 1766 : he m. Silence Ford of Marshfield, where they both originally belonged. They had Mary 1747, Hannah Oct. 25, 1749, Jane 1751, Thomas 1754, Lydia 1756, Lois 175S, Ruth, Betty 176S. Mary m. Eleazar Allen of Rochester. — Hannah m. Josiah Newton 1776, and after- wards Cushing Mitchell 17S0. — Jane m. Eleazar Barrows 1773. Lydia m. Thomas Whitman 17S1. — Lois m. a Blazdell of Tam- worth, N. H.— Ruth m. Jareb White of Amherst 1794.— Betty m. Joseph Keith 1787, and afterwards Timothy Allen 1791. 2. Thomas (s. of Anthony 1.) m. Betsy, D. of Daniel Keith, 1781, and had Anthony (at Brookfield) 17S3, Daniel 1785, Thomas 1787 (2 last at Bridgewater), Lydia, Naomi, Betsy, Martin, Hannah (5 last at Tamworth, N. H., whither he and his father removed). SHEPARD.— Calvin Shepard m. Mary, D. of Josiah Byram, 1807, and had Silas Cleaveland 1809, Nathan Thomas 1811, Cal- vin 1816 : he removed to Pembroke. SHURTLIFF.— William Shurtliff m. Sarah, D. of John Kingman, 1745, and had Silence 1747, Sarah 1749. She d. 1752, and he m. a 2d wife Rachel, and had Content 1753, Amasa 1760, Barnabas 1761. She d., and he m. a 3d w. Abigail, and had Jona- than 1793: he d., and his wid. Abigail m. Capt. Josiah Dunbar 1793. Lucy Shurtliff m. Eleazer Cole 1769. — Simeon ShurtlefF m. Submit, D. of Henry Kingman, 17S1. — Ichabod ShurtlefF of Plymouth m. Betty Pettingill 1787. — Jonathan of M. m. Eliza- beth Leach. SILVESTER or SYLVESTER.— Israel Sylvester of Dux- bury m. Abigail, D. of Josiah Snell of W. B. 1734, and had Jo- seph 1735, Israel 1737, Seth 1740, Josiah 1742, Zechariah 1744, Abigail 1747. Joseph and Israel were bap. in W. B. 1739, but. the family lived afterwards in Dtixbury. All of the name, now numerous, descended probably from Richard Sylvester, who was at Weymouth 1630, and removed to Scituate 1642. — Zechariah above m. Mehitabel, D. of Zechariah Cary ofN. B. — Abigail m. Samuel Alden of Duxbury. 2. Joseph (s. of Israel 1 ) m. Lucy, D. of Ephraim Sampson of Mid'o., and settled in N. B. 1769, and had Lucy 1772, Ephraim 1774 : he had also Seth, Joseph, Benjamin, and Josiah b. before he came to this town : the father d. 1818, oe. 84. — Seth and Ben- jamin are d. — Josiah went to Tiverton. 3. Joseph Esq. (s. of Joseph 2.) in. Hannah, D. of Robert Howard, 1786, and had Custavus 1786, Abigail 178S*, Hannah 1790, Clinthy 1792, Wealthy 1794*, Algernon Sidney 179S.— Gustavus m. Martha, D. of Daniel Field 1811. Mehitabel, D. of Zechariah Sylvester of Dux. m. Zechariah 294 SILVESTER— SKINNER— SMITH. Snell 1793. — Sally m. Jesse Perkins 1808. — Rachel m. Joseph Newell 1734 — Tabitha d. in E. B. 1794, se. 47. SKINNER. — Jno. Skinner from Boston m. Rebecca M'Clench 1797, and had John 1799, at \V. B.: he returned again to Boston. SMITH. — Pelatiah Smith lived in W. B., and m. Jane, wid. of James Dunbar, and D. of Isaac Harris, and had Jane 1692, Pelatiah 1095, James 1697, Samuel 1099, Desire 1701, Joanna 1703, Rubamah 1705, Robert 170S, Joseph 1710- He purchased John Bolton's house and land butting on the Town River, and bounded westerly by Joseph Hay ward and Nath'l Brett 1701. — The family early removed from town. 2. John Smith (s. of John Smith of Randolph) settled in E. B., and m. Mary, D. of John Hanmer, 1749, and had Elizabeth 1750, William 1753, John 1755, Mary 1757, Daniel 1761, Sarah 1763, Dorcas 1765, Hosea 1768. — This family removed from t ma.— Mary d. 1778, 39. 20.— John the father d. 1790, se. 69 : he was with Gen'l Winslow in dispersing the Neutral French 1755, at Nova Scotia. 3. John m. Susanna Hill 1777, and had Paul, and d., and she m. John Dyer 1778. John Smith m. Ruth Cornish 1779: John Smith's w. d. 1779, and Joseph Cornish 7 days after, ee. 77. John Smith (s. of John of E. B., and g. s. of John of Ran- dolph) m. Hannah, D. of David Edson, 1805, and lived in N. B., and had Albert, Harrison, Salome, and Rachel. 4. Elijah Smith m. Betty, only child of Abner Harris, and lived in E. B., and had Betty 1758, Celia 1760, Abner. He re- moved from town. Betty d. unmarried. 5. Joseph Smith and his wife Thankful came from the Cape, and settled in E. B., and bad Henry Thornbury, Mary, Rhoda, Joseph (all bap. 1779), Priscilla 1779, John 1781, Rachel 17S5: she d. 1S23, se. 74; he d. 1831, 33. 84. Mary m. John Crooker perhaps 1798. — Rhoda m. John Tirrell Jr. 1794. — Priscilla not m. — Joseph m. Eunice Muxam 1799: she d. 1802. a?. 27. 6. Henry Thornbury (s. of Joseph 5.) m. Priscilla, D. of Knight Brown, 1792, and had Libeus and others, and went into Maine and preached. Libeus m. Salome, D. of Azor How, 1814, and Polly, D. of Christopher Bates, 1S17.— His D. Priscilla per- haps m. Robert Sever 1818. 7. Rev. Amasa Smith m. Mary Haskell of Westborough 1815, and had Mary Haskell 1816. 8. William Smith came from Duxbury to E. B. 1832, m. a Tilden, and had William Webster 1832, Andrew Jackson, and others. John Smith m. Jael, D. of Samuel Packard. — Solomon of E. m. Elizabeth, D. of Joseph Cole, 1761. — Elizabeth m. Josiah Whitman 1747. — Margaret of Milton m. Robert Tomson 1754. Samuel m. Abigail, D. of Ebenezer Allen. — Martha m. John Gilmore 1764. — Anna of Lexington m. Simeon Leonard 1764. — Zephaniah m. Lydia Conant 1773. — Jeremiah m. Mary Farr of East on 1773. — Richard m. Rhoda Reed 1773. — Dorcas m. Win, SMITH.— SNELL. 295 Shaw 1773. — Abigail of Roxbury m. Joshua Bowen 17S2. — Isaac of Braintree m. Mary Conant 1783. — Chloe of Norton m. Nathan Kingman 1785. — Lydia of Walpole m. Roland Leonard 1786. — Judith of Pembroke m. Rev. Samuel Angier 1796. — Eli- jah m. Mary Beal 1802. — Becca m. Daniel T. Dickerman 1803. John of Canton m. Hannah Edson 1804. — Submit m. William Curtis 1S06. — Nabby m. Silas Leonard 1785. — Rachel m. Nathan Alger 2d 1809, Priscilla of Mid'o. m. Daniel Allen 1815.— Bath- sheba of Hanson m. Eleazar Carver Jr. 1821. — Mary m. Benj. Southworth 1763 — Rachel m. Jonathan Lawrence 1765. — Be- naiah m. Mary Hill 173S.— Allen m. Sally Leach 1815. SNELL. — Thomas Snell (from England, nephew of Dea. Samuel Edson) settled in W. B. a. 1665. He was probably the largest landholder in the town, and some portions of it still bear his name, as Snell's Plain, Snell's Meadows, &c. He m. Mar- tha, D. of Arthur Harris, and had Thomas 1671,'Josiah 1674, Samuel 1676, Amos 1678, John 16S0, Joseph 1683, Ann 1685, Mary 1689, Martha 1692: his will 1724. Ann m. Nicholas By- ram 1708. — Mary m. first Nathaniel Reynolds, and then David Ames 1722.— Martha m. Ephraim Fobes 1714. 2. Thomas (s. of Thomas 1.) had Thomas 1696, Joseph, Abi- gail 1703, Betty 1705. He appeared to be in Mansfield 1726. — He d. 1739. — Betty m. Jonathan Copeland 1723. — Joseph was living with his grandfather 1721, who called him " the eldest sur- viving son of his son Thomas :" of course there had been other ss. who were dead, and also, it would seem, one other at least was living. No further account of Joseph or Abigail is obtained. 3. Josiah (s. of Thomas 1.) m. Anna, D. of Zechariah Alden of Duxbury, 1699, and had Josiah 1701, Abigail 1702, Zecha- riah 1704: he d. 1753; she 1705. Abigail m. Israel Sylvester of Duxbury 1734. 4. Samuel (s. of Thomas 1.) went to Tiverton, and was in Newport 1726, called a Tanner. He sold land in E. B. to Jo- seph Shaw 1705. 5. Amos (s. of Thomas 1.) settled in S. B., m. Mary, D. of Samuel Packard Jr., 1700, and had Mary 1700, Jemima 1704, Susanna 1706, Amos 1709, Daniel 1711, Moses 1713, Martha 1716, Charity 1719, Keziah 1727. He d. 1769, 33.91. Mary m. Hugh Mehuren 1725. — Jemima m. Benjamin Snow 1722. — Su- sanna m. Richard Davenport Jr. — Martha m. Jonathan Benson 1740. — Charity m. Silvanus Blossom 173S. — Keziah m. Benja- min Benson 1745. 6. John (s. of Thomas 1.) m. Susanna, D. of Samuel Packard Jr. 1715, and had John 1715*, Nathan 1718*, Samuel 1720*, Zebulun 1721*, Samuel 1723*, Susanna 1725, Silence 172S : he d. 1767. Susanna m. Sam'l Willis 1747. — Silence m. Elijah Hay- ward 1751. — There was a John Snell (at Francis Wood's in S. B.) warned out 1735, called of Raynham ; perhaps of Thomas's or Samuel's family. 7. Joseph (s. of Thomas 1.) m. Hannah, D. of Thomas 296 SNELL. Williams of Taunton, 1712, (Rev. Mr. Keith m. her mother for his 2d wife) and had Joseph 1713, Mary 1716, Charles 1717, Jonathan 1718, Martha 1719*, Ann 1720*, Nath'l 1721, Solomon 1723*, Hannah 1724, Mehitabel 1727*, Seth 1729*, Seth 1730, Maitha 1732. He was a Tanner, and d. 1736 ; she 1755. Mary m. Abiah Keith 1737. — Hannah m. Nathan Keith 1746. — Martha m. Samuel Bishee 1751. 8. Thomas (s. of Thomas 2.) m. Hannah Lewis of Mid'o. and settled in E. B , and had Deliverance 1727, Thomas 1730, Elea- zar 1732, Joseph 1734*, Hannah 1735, Pollycarpus 1737, William 1740, Barnahas 1741, Lewis 1745*, Seth 1747. : he d. 1772, se.76 ; she 1793, se. 89. Deliverance m. Nath'l Chamberlin (his 2d w.) 1*67. — Thomas m. Bethiah, D. of James Allen, and went to Woolwich, Me., and left a family there. — Eleazarwent to N. Y., and had a family there. — Hannah m. Benj. Chamberlin 1756. — Seth went to Warren, R. I., and left a large family. 9. Josiah (s. of Josiah 3.) m. Abigail, D. of John Fobes, 1728, and had Josiah 1730, Anna 1732, Elijah 1734, Mary 1736*, Abi- gail 1739*, Rhoda 1743, Nathan 1748. Anna m. Edmund Hay- ward 1751. — Rhoda m. Elijah Copeland 1765. 10. Dea. Zechariah (s. of Josiah 3.) in. Abigail, D. of Dea. Joseph Hay ward, 1731, and was one of the early settlers in N. B., and had Issachar 1732, Abigail 1734, Zebedee 1736, Ebene- zer 1738, Zechariah 1743*, Hannah 1745* : he d. 1768, ae. 64; she lived to a great age, between 90 and 100. Abigail m. Robert Howard Jr. 1757. 11. Amos (s. of Amos 5.) m. Experience Washburn 1759, 2d wife perhaps, and had Isaiah, David, Isaac, and perhaps others. Isaiah went to Me. — David m. Molly Bowcker 1783. — Isaac m. Rachel Reed of Pembroke 1800. — David and Isaac went to Ware. — Amos, by first w., went to Freetown. — Amos the father d. 1791, ae. 81. 12. Dr. Daniel (s. of Amos 5.) m. Joanna Harlow 1732, and had Daniel 1733, Susanna 1735, Joanna 1738, John 1741, Lydia 1743*, Keziah 1745, Lydia 1747, Sarah 1749, Benjamin 1752, William 1754: she d. 1795, a?. 82 ; he d. 1776. Susanna nr. Nathan Orcutt of E. B. a. 1756. — Joanna m. Jacob Hayward 3d 1759. — Keziah m. Jeremiah Washburn 1777. — Lydia never m. — Sarah m. Jeremiah Collins perhaps of R. I. 1771. 13. Moses (s. of Amos 5.) m. Mary Besse 1736, and had Mary 1737, Charity 1739, Moses 1741, Robert 1743. Mary m. Nathan Rickard 1767.— Charity m. Elisha Washburn of Roxbury 1763. Moses m. Hannah, D. of Nathaniel Washburn, 1763, and had 4 children, who all d. 177S, and Robert and Hannah. Robert m. Joanna King of T. 1786. — Hannah m. Wm. Loring. 14. Joseph (s. of Joseph 7.) gra. H. U. 1735, engaged in no profession, lived in N. B., m. Anna Williams, and had Mary 1747, Joseph 1750, Olive 1753, Gilbert 1755: he died 1791,33. 78. Olive m. James Alger 2d 1781. — Gilbert d. a bachelor. 15. Charles (s. of Joseph 7.) m. Susanna, D. of Jonathan SNELL. 297 Packard, 1745, and lived in N. B., and had Mehitabel 1745*, Bathsheba 1747*, Jonathan 1749*, Silence 1750, Charles 1753, Nathaniel 1755, Susanna 1757, Hannah 1759, Reuben 17GI*, Abigail 1765, Shepard 1770: he d. 1771, as. 54. Silence m. Ebenezer Howard 1773. — Susanna m. Abiel Harris 1774. — Hannah m. Jonathan Keith 1777. — Abigail m. Capt. Leavit Thayer 1783. — Nathaniel, a bachelor. 1(3. Jonathan (s. of Joseph 7.) m. Martha, D. of Ephraim Fobes, 1751, and had Jonathan 1752, Martha 1753, Ephraim 1756, Thaddeus 1758, William 1760, Sarah and Ann 1762, Ed- ward 1764*, Mary 1767, Caleb 1769. Mary m. Martin Burr 1792. 17. Nathaniel (s. of Joseph 7.) gra. H. U. 1740, but engaged in no profession, kept school, and d. at Taunton a bachelor. 18. Pollycarpus (s. of Thomas 8.) m. Susanna, D. of Eben'r Shaw, 1766, and had Lewis 1767, Stephen 1769, Thos. 1772, Cy- rus 1774, Ebenezer 1776, d. 1804; Hannah 1779, d. 1S08 ; Sam- uel 1781, Susanna 1785, d. 1809: he d. 18C6, as. 69; she 1817, as. 73. Thomas m; Susanna, D. of Joseph Allen 1792, and he and Lewis went to Ware. — Cyrus was a Physician and went to Me. — Samuel m. Phebe Cole 1810, and had Nathan T., Soranus, d. 1833, 33. 16; Elbridge, d. 1834, as. 45; Edwin, Mary Anne*. Nathan T. m. Harriet Frances, D. of Francis Cary. 19. William Esq. (s. of Thomas 8.) in. Abigail, D. of Eleazar Alden, 1774, and had William 1776, Seth 177S, Smyrdus 1780, Eleazar 1784 : he then removed to Ware, and thence to Tarn- worth, N. H., and had Alden and Martin. He was a soldier in the French war, and suffered much : lost the use of one leg : kept school, and was called here, master Shell. Wm. m. Sarah Blossom— Smyrdus m. Lucy, D. of Mark Phillips 1807. 20. Barnabas (s. of Thos. 8.)m. Eunice, D. of Gershom Conant, 1783, and had Anna 1785: she d. 1795, as. 52; he 1816, 33. 75. 21. Capt. Josiah (s. of Josiah 9.) m. Susanna, D. of John Ames, 1752, and had Susanna 1754, Barnabas 1757, Abigail 1759. His wife d., and he m. Ruhamah, wid. of Jonas Hartwell 1763, and had Melzar 1764, Perez 1767, Ruhamah 1769, Josiah 1771, Hannah 1774, Lydia 1781 : he d. 1S03. Susanna m. Capt. Jede- diah Willis 1775. — Barnabas m. Hannah Holmes of H. 1781. — Abigail m. James Howard Jr. 1775. — Melzar m. Anna True of N. Y. 17S9, and went to Me. — Hannah m. Jona. Upham of Can- ton 1799. — Lydia m. Henry Withington 1801. 22. Dea. Elijah (s. of Josiah 9 ) m. Susanna, D. of Seth How- ard, 1760, and had Httldah 1762, Bezer 1764, Calvin 1766, Su- sanna 1768, Rhoda 1770, Elijah 1772, Mehitabel and Parnel 1774, Abigail 1776, Ann 1778, Polly 1780, John Eliot 1783, Lu- cinda 17S9. She d., and he m. Ann, wid. of Jonas Reynolds and D. of Luke Perkins.— Huldah ra. Daniel Brett 1784. — Bezer gra. H. U. 1789, went to the south/and d. young. — Rhoda m. Charles Ames 1789. — Mehitabel m. Ebenezer Copeland Jr. 1798. Abigail m. Capt. Lloyd Howard 1796. — Parnell m. Jesse How- ard ^Fr. 1799. — The father and rest of the family went to Me. 38 298 SNELL. 23. Nathan (s. of Josiah 9.) m. Betty, D. of James Howard, 1770, and had Betty 1771, Mary l774,Nathan 1776, Cyrus 1778, Chloe 1781, Luther 1783*, Vashti 1785, Abigail 1788, Rhoda 1791, Lentho 1794: ho d. 1802. Betty m. Salmon Copeland 1799.— Mary m. Luke Perkins 1797. — Chloe m. Nehemiah Packard [807.— Vashti m. Barzillai Ca'rv 1808.— Abigail m. Eliphalet Packard L8I4.— Rhoda m. Capt. Nahum Leonard 1812. 24. Issachar Esq. (s. of Zechariah 10.) m. Sarah, D. of Ben- jamin Ilayvvard, 17G9, and had Issachar, Mehitabel*, Abigail, Sarah, Hannah: he d. 1S20, se. 88. Abigail m. Caleb Howard Esq. 1821) : his 2d wife.— Sarah m. Turner Torrey 1SU3.— Han- nah m. Oakes Tirrell 1805. 25. Capt. Zebedee (s. of Zechariah 10.) m. Martha, D. of Ephraim Howard, I7G1, and had Hannah 1702, Zechariah 1764, Oliver 1767, Martha 1769, Molly 1772. His wife d., and he m. Mary,D. of Benja. Hay ward, 1777, and had Abigail 1779, Zebe- dee 1781, Lavinia 17b3, Mary 1790. — Hannah m. Daniel Field 1786.— Martha m. William Reynolds 1791.— Molly m. Dr. Elisha Tilson 1792. — Lavinia in. Zibeon Brett 1804. — Mary m. Simeon Reynolds 1809. 26. Ebenezer Esq. (s. of Zechariah 10.) m. Sarah, D. of Capt. Abiel Packard, 1764, and removed to Cummington, and was the father of the Rev. Thomas Snell of N. Brookfield, and of a D. who m. Dr. Peter Bryant, and who was mother of Wm. Cullen Bryant, the Poet. 27. Daniel (s. of Daniel 12.) m. Abigail,. D. of Zechariah Packard, 1753, and had Abigail 1754. He m. a 2d w. Mary, and had Joanna 1769, Daniel 1775. 28. John (s. of Daniel 12.) went into the French war and was killed at the Isle-aux-Noix 1760. He was the first inhabitant of the town of Bridgewater known to have been killed in battle. We find in the Rev. Samuel Angier's record of deaths the fol- lowing entry : — " Sept. 19th, 1777. Capt. Jacob Allen and Abner Robinson were killed in battle near Stillwater, above Albany : before these there was no person of this town ever killed in bat- tle except one John Snell, who was slain in the former war with France." 29. Benjamin (s. of Daniel 12.) m. Rebecca, D. of Lot Conant, 17S2, and had Rebecca, Benjamin, Susanna, and Stella. Re- becca m. George Baker of Duxbury 1816. — Susanna m. John Carver a. 1823. — Capt. Benjamin and Stella not m. 39. William (s. of Daniei 12.) m. Eunice, D. of Henry Cary, 1781, and had Sarah, Henry, Robie and Joanna Harlow : he d. 1836. Sarah m. Seth Alden 1S00.— Henry m. Sarah, D. of Isaac Swift. — Joanna m. Nathaniel Washburn : all d. but Henry. 31. Joseph (s. of Joseph 14.) m. wid. Hannah Cook of the Cape 1785, and had Anna 1785, Alfred 17S8, Joseph Doane 1789, Abigail 1792, Luther 1793*, Hannah 1794, Georsre Wash- ington 1796, Azubah 1800, John Westly 1802: she died 1817. Anna m. Charles Hunt of Dorchester perhaps 1806. SNELL. 299 32. Charles (s. of Charles 15.) m. Mary, D. of Matthew Kingman, 1776, and hadAlven 1778, Matthew 17S0, Cyrus 1787, Polly 1789*. He m. wid. Rebecca Packard 1807. Alven in. Abigail Bryant 1798. — Cyrus m. Susanna Shaw of Ab. 1819. 33. Shepard (s. of Charles 15.) m. Amy, D. of Jeremiah Thayer, 1794, and had Nancy 1795*, Susanna 1797, Ansel 1800, Royal 1802. — Susanna m. John B. Harris perhaps 1818. 34. Capt. Epbraim (s. of Jonathan 10.) m. Anna, D. of James Keith, 1780, and had Amelia 1780, Jonathan 1782, Patty 1784, Semantba 1780, Bathsheba 1788, Anna 1790. He then m. Han- nah, widow of Josiah Williams and I), of Jonathan Kingman, 1792, and had Polly 1794, Hannah 1795, Ephraim 1&00. He d., and the wid. then m. Caleb Snell 1808. — Amelia m. Salmon Howard 1799.— Jonathan m. Nabby, D. of Jobn Hudson, 18C9. Patty m. Daniel Hudson 1806. — Semantba m. Sidney Keith 1806. Polly m. Damon Kingman 1814. 35. Caleb (s. of Jonathan 16.) m. Sarah, D. of Jonathan Bai- ley, 1799, and had Sarah and Ann 1800, Edwin 1804, Catharine 1806*. She died 1807, and he m. Hannah, wid. of his brother Ephraim, and previously wid. of Josiah Williams, and 1). of Jonathan Kingman 1S08. 36. Stephen (s. of Pollycarpus 18.) m. Patty Cole 1796, and had Augustus 1797, Cyrus 1S00, Lucius 1801, Edward 1S03, Eme- line 1805*, Susanna Shaw 1809, Emeline 1811, Laura Anne 1813, Lauren ISIS. Augustus m. an Eaton of Mid'o. — Cyrus m. Catha- rine Conday in Boston, and d. 1826, as. 26. — Lucius d. 1832, as. 3). 37. Perez (s. of Josiah 21.) m. Hannah, D. of Samuel Kins- ley, 17S6, and had Perez 1789, Martin 1792, Apollos 1795. . 38. Capt. Josiah (s. of Josiah 21.) and his w. Lucy had John Root 1803, Josiah 1806. 39. Calvin (s. of Dea. Elijah 22.) m. Polly, D. of Jacob Packard, 17S5, and had Harrison 1786, Roxana 1788, Rhoda 1791, and went to Maine with his father. 40. Elijah (s. of Dea. Elijah 22.) m. Abby, D. of Ebenezer Copeland, 1796, and had Bezer 1797, Noble 1798, Abby God- frey 1801, and went to Me. with the rest of the family. 41. Nathan (s. of Nathan 23.) m. Abigail, D. of Maj. James Keith, 1800, and had Luther 1800, Minerva 1803, Edward 1804. 42. Cyrus (s. of Nathan 23.) m. Betsy Keith 1801, and had Nahum 1803, Cyrus 1805. He and his w. both d. 1805. 43. Dr. Issacbar (s. of Issachar Esq. 24.) gra. H. U. 1797, m. Mary, D. of Simeon Keith, 1799, and had Camilla 1800, Thomas 1802, Willard 1803. He removed to Winthrop, Me. 44. Zechariah (s. of Capt. Zebedee 25.) m. Mehitabel, D. of Zechariah Sylvester of Duxbury, 1793, and had Samuel 1794, Sidney 1795*, Zechariah 1797*, Elbridge Gerry 1799, Daniel 1801, Mehitabel 1803, Patty Howard 1805, Zechariah 1807, Cephas 1S10, David 1812, Susanna 1814: he d. 1819. Samuel m. Ruth Reed of Ab. perhaps 1813.— David J. Snell d. at Car- linville, Illinois, July 17, 183S. 300 SNELL— SNOW. 45. Oliver (s. of Capt. Zebedee 25.) m. Hannah, D. of Jere- miah Beal, 1792, and had Oliver 1793, Jeremiah 1796, Hannah 179$, Isaac 1601, Polly Tilson 1804, Rachel 1807, Asa Ford 1810, Pitty Howard 1812. Jeremiah m. Sally Holhrook per- haps 1819 — Hannah perhaps m. Cordon Stone of Easton 1821. 4(j. Zebedee (s. of Capt. Zebedee 25.) m. Hannah, D. of Job Ames, 1804, and had Lavinia Dike 1S04, Mary Ames 1806, Si- lence Perry 1808, Enos Tilson 1812.— Job Ames 1814, Ethan Carver 1815. 47. Matthew (s. of Charles 32.) m. Susanna, wid. of Charles Southvvorth, and D. of Abiel Harris of A., 1S06, and had Nath'l 1807, Jane Whitman 1809, Henry 1812: he d. 1839, a?. 59. Lucy m. Whitcomb Stetson of Abington 1796. — Lydiam. Jona. Dawes 1772. — John and Philippa Snell of Boston had Susanna 1659, Anna 16(51, John 1663, (2d wife Hannah), Simon 1667. His will, 1669, mentions his brother Simon of London. — Hannah Snell b. at Hingham 16S9. — George Snell of Portsmouth mari- ner, and his w. Hannah 169S. SNOW. — William Snow was "an apprentice to Mr. Richard Derby 1637, and by him brought over out of England, and assigned over to Edward Doten 1638, to serve him seven years" at Ply- mouth. He was of course 21 years old in 1645, and we find his name among those able to bear arms at Plymouth 1643. — Nich- olas Snow was at Plymouth 1623, and went to Eastham 1642. — Anthony Snow was at Plymouth 163S, and afterwards at Marsh- field, and both appear to have left families ; but it is not ascer- tained that William had any connection with either of them. — William settled early in Duxbury, but probably was not a house- holder, or not m. in 1645, when the grant of this -plantation to Duxbury was made, and therefore his name is not found among the original proprietors ; but he became a proprietor, and was among the first settlers of the town, in W. B., and took the oath of fidelity among the first in 1657 : his will dated 1699, proved 1708 : he d. se. a. 84, and had been taken care of by his s. Wil- liam. His wife's name was Rebeckah, but her family name not given : his children were William, James, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary, Lyclia, Hannah, and Rebeckah. — James d. in the Canada expedition 1690. — No account of the Ds. 2. William (s. of William 1.) m. Naomi, D. of Thomas Whit- man, 1636, and had Bethiah 1688, James 1691, Susanna 1694, William 1697, Eleazar 1701, John 1704: his estate settled 1726. Bethiah m. Elisha Hayward 1721. — Susanna m. Israel Alger 1717. — No further account of James. 3. Joseph (s. of William 1.) and his w. Hopestill had Joseph 1690, Mary 1691, James 1693, Rebeckah 1696, Isaac 1700, Jon- athan and David 1703: he d. 1753. Mary m. Joseph Lathrop 1718.— Rebeckah m. Thomas Wade 1722. 4. Benjamin (s. of William 1.) m. Elizabeth, D. of Joseph Alden 1693, and had Rebeckah 1694, Benjamin 1696, Solomon 1698, Ebenezer 1702, Elizabeth 1705. His w. d. 1705, and he SNOW. 301 m. Sarah, wid. of Jonathan Cary and D. of Samuel Allen, ]7C5, and had Sarah 1700: he d 1743. Rebeckah m. a Campbell. — Elizabeth m. Joseph Carver 1725 — Sarah m. Nathaniel Pratt, and was dead at the date of her father's will 1743, having left a s. Seth (Dea. Seth Pratt). — Solomon m Bathsheha Mehurin 1724. 5. William (s. of William 2.) m. Mary Washburn 1722, and had William 1723, Seth 1725, James 1729, Mary 1731, Susanna 1730. Mary m. Samuel Dunbar 1758. 0. Eleazar (s. of William 2.) m. Mercy King 172S, and had Betty 1729, Reuben 1731, Eleazar 1734, Mercy 1737, Daniel 1742 : she d. 17S9; he d. 1790. Betty m. Nathan Ames 1751, and then William Tolman 1757, and afterwards Micah White. Mercy m. Jacob Johnson of St. 1700. 7. John (s. of William 2.) m. Hannah, D. of Elislia Hayward, 1731 : no children : she d. 1750, a?. 45 : he then m. Hannah, wid. of Stou°hton Willis (she was a Harlow) 1750, and had Saiah 1758, John 1702. 8. Joseph (s. of Joseph 3 ) and his w. Elizabeth had Joseph 1715, James 1717, Elizabeth 1719, Susanna 1722, Sarah 1725, Daniel 1727. He went to Easton a. 1730, and afterwards to Providence ; was called Deacon 1738 in a deed he gave to Caleb Phillips — Joseph was a Preacher, and settled in Providence ; Mr. Wilson afterwards in 1793, was settled as colleague with him. 9. James (s. of Joseph 3.) lived in E. B. and m. Ruth, D. of Joseph Shaw a. 1719, and had Ruth 1720, Abijah 1722, Mary 1724, Nathan 1725, Abigail 1727, Susanna 1729, Jedediah 1731, Sarah 1732, John 1730, James 1742, by his 2d wife Hannah Hovey. Ruth m Perez Bonney 1739. — Nathan m. Mary Mans- field perhaps 1748, and went to Abington, and John also moved away. — No account of Jedediah. — Abigail m. John Egerton 1740, and Jonathan Beal 1780. — Susanna m. Abijah Edson 1747. Sarah m. Benjamin Harris 1751. — Abijah m. Sarah Porter of Abington — Nathan Jr. went to Cummington. 10. Isaac (s. of Joseph 3.) m. Hannah, D. of Joseph Shaw, 1722, and lived in E. B., and had Hannah 1723, Isaac 1720, Martha 1728, Peter 1731, Joseph 1734*, Judith 1730. He d. 1737, and she m. John Whitman 1743. Hannah m. Joseph Robinson 1759, his 2d w. — Martha m. Capt. Simeon Whitman 1750. — Pe- ter went to Harvard. — Judith m. John Barrell 1750. 11. Jonathan (s. of Joseph 3.) m. Ruth Soule, and afterwards a 2d w. Sarah, and had Samuel 1729, Jesse 1731, Sarah 1732, Rebecca 1734, Jonathan 1730, Moses 1737, Aaron 1740. Jona- than m. Betty Packard 1701. — Sarah m. Nath'l Packard 1753. — This family went to Mid'o. — Sam'l Snow m. Betty Perkins 1775. 12. David (s. of Joseph 3.) m. Joanna, D. of Joseph Hayward, 1731, and had David 1732*, Joseph 1734, Joanna 1735, Mehita- bel 1737*, Lydia 1740, Rhoda 1742 : she d. 1794, eg. 90. Joanna m. Nathaniel Edson 1759. — Lydia m. John Whitman 1704. — Rhoda m. Ezra Whitman 1708. 13. Benjamin (s. of Benjamin 4.) m. Jemima, D. of Amos 302 SNOW. Snell, 1722, and settled in S. Bride:., and had Jemima 1723, Benja. 1724, Daniel 1726, Elijah 1728, Elizabeth 1730, Charity 1733*, Lucy 1735, Amos 1738, Joseph 1740*, Seth 1743*, Joseph 1746*: lie d. 1760, Be 65. Jemima m. Elijah Leach 1745. 14. Ebenezer (s. of Benjamin 4.) m. Sarah, D. of Joseph Pratt, a. 172S, and had Ebenezer 1729, Nathaniel 1731, Sarah 1733, Caleb 1736. She died 1737, and he m. Sarah, wid. of Stephen Leach and D. of John Hooper, 1737, and had Solomon 1741, Rebecca 1742, Zebedee 1743, John, Eli, and Mary. He went to R- a. 1751, and m. a wid. Wilbor for a 3d wife, but had no children by her. Solomon m. Elizabeth, D. of Eleazar Cary, 1780, and had Elizabeth. Solomon, and William. — Caleb was in the French war, 1755, with Gen'l Winslow. — Zebedee went to Scituate, R. I., and had Zebedee, Solomon, and William. 15. Ebenezer (s. of Ebenezer next above) m. Betty Hooper, and had Sarah 1751, Betty 1753, Lydia 1755, Susanna 1757, Eunice 1759, and Ebenezer, who m. Sarah, D. of Joseph Pool, 1783. This family lived in R. 16. William (s. of William 5.) m. Hannah, D. of Nathan Hill, 1743, and had Calvin 1749, Salome 1751 he d. 1755. Calvin m. Hannah, D. of Ephraim Churchill, 1784. — William Snow's wife d. in S. B. 1774.— Wm. Snow m.Jerusha,D of David Hill, 1776. 17. Seth (s. of William 5.) m. Betty, D. of Jona. Sprague, and had Simeon 1750, Betty 1752, Seth 1755, Jonathan 1757, Lydia 1759*. Elizabeth Snow m. Josiah Washburn 1775. 18. James (s. of William 5.) m. Mary, D. of Timothy Edson, 1758, and had Eliab 1759, James 1761, and d. 1762. Eliab m. Lydia Snow 1782, and Eliab Snow m. Dorcas, D. of Ephraim Churchill, 17S7. — James m. Rebecca A lden of Tit. probably 1789. 19. Reuben (s. of Eleazar 6.) m. Hannah, D. of Stoughton Willis 1768, and had Rhoda 1769, and went to Easton. 20. Eleazar (s. of Eleazar 6.) m. Mary, D. of John Wood, 1757, and settled in N. B., and had Mary 1757, Eleazar 1759, Priscilla 1761, Jonathan, Silas, Bets}', Sarah, Zevina, Mercy, Phebe : he died 1797, se. 64. Eleazar m. Hannah, D. of Jacob Dunbar, 17S0, and settled in the State of New York. — Mary m. Seth Snow 1778. — Priscilla m. Simeon Snow 1779. — Sarah m. a Merritt. — Zevina m. Jonathan Snow of N. Y. 1799. — Mercy m. Nathaniel Wilmouth 1795.— Phebe in. Moses Crafts 1799. 21. Daniel Esq. (s. of Eleazar 6) m. Hannah, D. of Samuel Dunbar, 1764, and had Hannah 1765, Daniel 1767, Silvia 1769*, Sarah 1771*, Mehitabel 1773*, Nathan 1776, Cvrus 1778, Sarah 1780, Melatiah 17S2. His w. d. 1812, and he and all his family went to Maine. Hannah m. Benjamin Alger of Easton 1785. — Melatiah m. Abiathar Wethrell of Easton 1807. — Nathan, a bachelor. — Sarah m. a Hill in Readfield, Me. 22. John (s. of John 7.) m. Mary, 1). of James Ames, 1784, and had David 1785, John 1787, Sarah 1789, Charles 1791, George 1794, Lucy 1798: his wife d. 1819. — John m. Rebecca Lathrop 1811, and had Edward James 1811. — Sarah m. William SNOW. 303 Dunbar lS07.-^Charles m. Hannah Place 1820.— Lucy m. Ben- jamin Randall 1819. — He m. a 2d w. Hannah, vvid. of Nathaniel Perkins and D. of Edmund Hay ward 1821. 23. Isaac (s. of Isaac 10.) m. Elizabeth, D. of William Bow- ditch, 1748, and had Mary 1749, and went to Haverhill. 24. Joseph (s. of David 12.) m. Ruth, D. of Dea. Zechariah Shaw, 1759, and had Sarah 1759, David 1761, Daniel 1763, Me- hitabel 1767, Ruth 1769, Joseph 1772, Moses 1775. This family went to Brookfield. David in. Jemima, D. of Jacob Hay ward, 1787, and had Vashti 1790, Experience 1791, David 1793, and then went to Brookfield. — Sarah m. Silvanus Hay ward 17S1. — Daniel m. Sally Allen at Brookfield 1792. — Mehitabel m. Seth Richards 1791. — Joseph m. Tamzin, D. of John Richards, 1795, and then went to Brookfield. 25. Daniel (s. of Benjamin 13.) m. Abigail, D. of Joshua Fobes, 1753, and had Abigail 1754, Daniel 1756, Hosea 1758, Joseph 1760, Lucy 1762, Barzillai 1765, Azariah 1768, John 1770. 26. Elijah (s. of Benjamin 13.) in. Sarah, D. of Samuel Dun- bar 1767, and lived in Titicut, and had Sarah 1770, who m. Ja- cob Lathrop 1787, and a son Benjamin : his wife died 1779 ; he 1792. 27. Simeon (s. of Seth 17.) m. Priscilla, D. of Eleazar Snow, 1779, and had Simeon 1781*, Betty 1783, Priscilla 1785, Lavi- nia 1787, Hepzibah 1789, Shepard 1791, Phebe 1793, Zibeon 1795, Roxiliana 1797, and went to Whitestown, N. Y. 28. Seth (s. of Seth 17.) m. Mary, D. of Eleazar Snow, 1778, and had Seth 1780, Barnabas 1782, Polly 1785, Cyrus 1787, Asenath 1789, Elijah 1792, Perez 1795,Zerviah 1796, and went to Whitestown, N. Y. 29. Jonathan (s. of Seth 17.) went to N. Y., and probably ro. Zevina, D. of Eleazar Snow, 1799. 30. Jonathan Esq. (s. of Eleazar 20.) m. Huldah Snow, and had Huldah 1786, Jonathan 17SS, Salmon 1789*, Caleb 1790*, Susanna 1793, Sprague 1795, Sebrina 1797, Martin 1799, Olive 1800, Thomas Jefferson 1803, Relief 1805. Huldah m. Stillman Willis 1809.— Jonathan m. Sally, D. of Nathan Bryant, 1810.— Susanna m. Jeremiah Hickson of St. 1S09. — Sprague m. Nancy Kingman of Mansfield 1820. — Sebrina m. John Sealy of Easton 1818.— Martin m. Ann Wilbor 1S2L— Thos. J. gra. B. U. 1823. 31. Silas (s. of Eleazar 20) m. Hannah, D. of EphraimCole, 1S00, and had Austin 1802, Linus 1804*, Silence 1S08, Mary 1811, Lurin 1814. 32. Daniel (s. of Daniel Esq. 21.) m. Hannah Richmond of Mid'o. 1790, and went to Union, Maine, and had Ansel, A.zel, Philip, Oliver, Silvia, Hannah, Harriet, Elizabeth, Sarah. Ansel lives in Appleton — Azel m. a D. of Thomas Johnson of New Gloucester, and lived in N. York, and now lives in Boston, an Apothecary. — The Ds. are all m. and live in Me. 33. Cyrus (s. of Daniel Esq. 21.) m. Ruth Makepeace of 304 SOPER.— SOREIN.— SOULE.— SOUTHWORTH. Norton 1801, and bad Ruth Makepeace 1S02, Angelina 1803, Deborah 1805, Hannah Dunbar 1S07. He went to Franklin. 34. Seth (s. of Nath'l of Orleans) settled in N. B. 1783, m. Anna, D. of Josiah Packard, 1795, and had Josiah*, Nathaniel, Sally*, Achsah*, Hannah*, and Mary. His Avife d. 1820, and be m. wid. Sarah Norton, D. of Ephraim Noyes. Hannah m. Benj. Mehuren 1767. — Lydia m. Eliab Snow 1782. Bethiah m. Samuel Warren Jr. of Mid o. 1770. — Molly m. John Wade 1791. — Sarah m. Daniel Tomson 1794. — Hannah m. He- man Linnel 1797. — Ruth of Eastham m. Levi Packard 1789. — Hannah m. Jonathan Bolton 1794. — James m. Freelove Monk of St. 1794.— Zilpha m. David Bolton 1794.— Eunice m. Alfred Edson 1796.— Mehitabel of Easton m. Asa Bryant 1810. — Betsy m. Asa Bryant 181 1.— Elijah Snow of E. B. m.'Sarah Shaw 1780. SOPER. — Samuel Soperm. Esther Littlefield 1731, and lived in W. B., and had Edmund 1731, Hannah 1733, Asa 1734, Sam'l 1736, Esther 1733, Oliver 1740, Amasa 1742, Salter 1744, Sarah 1745, James 1747, Silence 1750. Esther, mother or D., m. Seth Briefs of Berkley a. 1754. — Hannah m. Daniel Pettingill 1750. 23=Edmund (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Bethiah (or Betty), D. of Ephraim Fobes, 1754, and had Betty 1755. His w. d., and he m. Eunice, D. of Capt. Theophilus Curtis of St. 1756, and had Mehitabel 1757, Edmund 1759, Eunice 1761. 3. Amasa (s. of Samuel 1.) m. Ruth Dwelly 1763, and had Huldah 1764, Olive 1766, Amasa 176S, Martin 1772. Capt. Nathaniel Soper of Hanson (s. of Alexander) m. Betty Price 1779. — Mary Soper m. Daniel Hartwell Jr. 1821. SOREIN. — John Sorein and his w. Mary had John in E. B. 1735, and went to Boston. SOULE. — Dea. John Soule m. Sarah, D. of Thomas Leach, and settled in E. B., and had William Norman 180S, and Eliza- beth 1S09. Ebenezer Soule of Plympton m. Silence, D. of William Hud- son 1764. — Asaph of Plymp. m. Marah, D. of William Hudson, 1767. — A D. of Ebenezer Whitman of S. B. m. a Soule — Wm. Soule m. Rachel Dillingham 1791. — Rebecca m. Sampson Wash- burn 1805. — Nathan Soule, brother of Rebecca, m. Charity, D. of Uriah Brett, 1815. — Wicl. Joanna, mother of Nathan and Re- becca, m. Nathan Alden Esq. 1818. SOUTHWORTH.— Widow Alice Southworth arrived at Ply- mouth 1623, in the third ship, called the Ann, and soon after was married to Gov. William Bradford : she had two ss. by her first husband, to wit: Constant and Thomas Southworth, who came with her or soon afterwards, and were quite young ; Thomas not more than six years old. They both became distinguished men in the colony : Constant settled in Duxbury, and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and d. 1678, leaving three sons, Edward, Nathaniel, and William; and three married Ds. viz: Mercy, w. of Samuel Freeman, Alice, wife of the famous Capt. Benjamin Church, distinguished in Philip's war, and Mary, SOUTHWORTH. 305 wife of David Alden, anil two unmarried Ds., Elizabeth and PriscilJa. — Thomas left an only child EJizabeth, who m. Joseph Howland. — Elizabeth, D. of Constant, afterwards m. William Pobes. — Nathaniel "had land towards Taunton, called Free- men's land," perhaps in Mid'o. — Edward, of Mid'o. perhaps, s. of Nathaniel, had 4 ss., Constant, Edward, Lemuel and Benja- min, who all settled early in J\r. B. Sarah Southworth of Mid'o. m. Eleazar Washburn Jr. a. 1771. Sarah Southworth m. Peter Edson 1745. 1. Constant (s. of Edward) m. Martha, D. of Joseph Keith, 1734, and had Betsy 173-5, Nathaniel 1737, Ezekiel 1739, Mar- tha* and Mary 1741*, Desire 1742*, Jedediah 1745, Constant 1747*, Sarah 1749, Ichabod 1751*: he d. 1775, as. 64. Betsy in. Joseph Cole 1757. — Sarah d. single. — Jedediah m. an Atherton, and settled in St., and had Constant and Consider. 2. Edward (s. of Edward) m. Lydia, D. of John Packard, 1750, and had Uriah 1751, Perez 1754, Desire 175G, Edward 1758, Abiah 1700, Bridget 1762, Lydia 1764, Avis 1768, Fear 1770. They all moved to Pelham except Perez. — Uriah m. Pa- tience Goodspeed of Easton 1773. 3. Lemuel (s. of Edward) m. Patience West 1757, and had Mehitabel 175S, Hannah 1760*, Patience 1763. Mehitabel m. John Gurney 1777. 4. Benjamin (s. of Edward) m. Mary Smith 1763, but had no children. He d., and his wid. m. Zechariah Gurney 1800. 5. Nathaniel (s. of Constant 1.) m. Catharine, D. of David Howard, 1762, and had Martha 1764*, Simeon 1766, Nathaniel 1769, David 1773*. His wife d. 1775, and he m. Jennet, D. of Simeon Brett, 1777, and had Catharine : he d. 17S8, and his wid. m. Ephraim Groves 1789. — Catharine m. Ambrose Keith 1796. — Nathaniel m. Patience, D. of William Shaw, 1793, and went to Lyme, N. H. 6. Ezekiel (s. of Constant 1.) m. Mary Newman 1761, and had Molly 1762, Ichabod Keith 1764, Constant 1767, and then went westward. 7. Perez (s. of Edward 2.) m. Eunice, D. of Matthew King- man, a. 1780, and had Harmony 1781, Hannah 17S2, John 1784, Edward 17S6, Martin 1788, Azel 1790*, Benjamin 1791, Perez and Eunice 1793, Polly 1796, Sophronia 1798, Lucy 1800. Har- mony m. Dea. Seth Alden 1802. — Hannah m. John Ames 1S02. — Eunice m. Daniel Alden 1815. — Sophronia m. Alva Noyes. — Lucy m. Oman Cole. — John m. Eliza, D. of Luther Hayward, 1806, and went to New Bedford.— Cob Edward m. Rhoda, D. of Robert Howard, 1815. — Martin m. Ruth, D. of Capt. Robert Packard, 1811. — Benjamin m. Content, D. of Dea. E ben. Pack- ard, 1S19, and went to Winthrop, Me. — Perez m. Betty, D. of Capt. Lot Leach of St. 1S21. 8. Simeon (s. of Nathaniel 5.) m. Elizabeth Anderson 17S9, and had Alva 1791, Justin 1793, and went to Ward. 39 30G SPRAGUE. Charles m. Susanna, D. of Abiel Harris, 1794, and Matthew Snell 1806.— Reuma m. Otis Howard 1818. SPRAGUE. — Francis Sprague was one of the forefathers, and arrived at Plymouth 162:3 in the ship Ann: he settled in Dux- bury, and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, but did not, nor did any of his family, come to reside here : he had John, Anna, Mary and Mercy. John m. Ruth Bassett 1655, and had John, William, Samuel, Eliza, Ruth, Desire, and Dorcas. Mercy m. William Tubbs 1637.— William d. at Dux. 1712, leav- ing a wid. Grace, and ss. Jethro and Terah, and Ds. Ruth and Zerviah. Samuel went to Rochester and d. there 1723, leaving a wid. Elizabeth, and a s. Ephraim, and perhaps others. The Spragues of Fairhaven, and the South Shore generally, descend- ed probably from Francis. There was no known connection between him and the following families. Ralph, Richard, and William Sprague, were among the first comers and settlers in Massachusetts Colony in 1628. They were brothers, and settled at Charlestown, from whence William, the youngest, removed to Hingham. Hosea Sprague of Hing- ham, one of the descendants of William, has lately presented the public with such a full and particular genealogy of the Sprague family, that it is necessary here only to give some ac- count of William, from whom the Spragues in this town are descended. William Sprague of Hingham m. Millesaint, D. of Anthony Eames, and had Anthony 1635, John 1638, Samuel 1640, Eliza- beth 1641, Persis 1643, Joanna 1644, Jonathan 1648, William 1650, Mary 1652, Hannah 1655 : he d. 1675. Anthony remained at Hingham, and d. 1719. — John went to Mendon, and d. 1690. — Samuel went to Marshfield, and d. 1709; was Secretary of the Colony, and great-grandfather of the Hon. Seth Sprague sen'r of Duxbury. — Jonathan d. at Hingham, and left no posterity. — William m. Deborah Lane 1674, and went to Providence. — Per- sis m. John Dogget. — Joanna m. Caleb Church. — Mary m. Thos. King. — William of Providence had William, Joanna, Deborah, Jonathan, Abiah, John, Benjamin. 1. Jonathan (s. of William of Providence) m. Lydia Leavit of Hins'ham, and settled in S. B., and had Lydia 1715, Hannah 1717, Jonathan 1720, Mary 1722, Sarah 1725*, John 1727, Con- tent 1729, Betty 1731, Benjamin 1736: his will 174S. Lydia m. Solomon Perkins 1733. — Hannah m. Solomon Bates. — Jonathan weut to Stafford, Conn. — Mary m. Nathan Edson 1738. — Con- tent m. a Howard of Dartmouth. — Betty m. Seth Snow a. 1749. 2. John (s. of Jonathan 1.) m. Susanna Cobb 1746, and had John 1746, and went to Block Island. 3. Benjamin (s. of Jonathan 1.) m. Eunice, D. of Ephraim Holmes, 1762, and had Ephraim 1763, Benjamin, Lydia 1777. He d. 1778, of the small pox, as. 42, and she m. Solomon Ames 1781, and became a wid. again, and d. 1833, as. 92. Lydia m. Capt. Asa Pratt 1799. SPRAGUE— STANDISH. 307 4. Capt. Ephraim (s. of Benjamin 3.) m. Vina, D. of Ezra Edson, 1783, and had Holmes 1783, Ephraim 1787, Eunice 1790, Vina 1799, and d. 1818; Chloe 1804, Mira 1806. Ephraim m. Jane, D. of Joseph Ames, IS 13, and went to Bristol, It. I. — Eunice m. Calvin Washburn 1809. — Mira m. John Washburn, and afterwards the Hon. John A. Shaw. 5. Benjamin (s. of Benjamin 3.) m. Priscilla Churchill 1786, and had Benjamin 1790, Friend 1792*, Lydia 1799, George 1801. Lydia m. Barna Leonard Jr. 1815. — George went to N. York, and thence to Florida. 6. Capt. Holmes (s. of Capt. Ephraim 4.) m. Betsy, D. of Daniel Copeland, 1808, and had Ephraim Holmes 1S09, Betsy Copeland 1S12, Edgar 1815, Caleb Gary 1819.— Ephraim H. m. Lois, D. of Nath'l Washburn. 7. Benjamin (s. of Benjamin 5.) m. Lucy, D. of Joseph Ames, 1818, and had Benjamin and Fisher Ames. — John of Abington ni. Rebecca, D. of John Alden of E. B. 17G7. STANDISH.— Capt. Miles Standish (one of the forefathers), the renowned soldier, and shield and defence of the pilgrims, came over in the first ship, the May Flower, in 1620: he lived in Plymouth till 1630, when he removed toDuxbury, and d. there 1656, 33. 72 : he wras an original proprietor of Bridge water, and a principal member of the committee who purchased the planta- tion of Massasoit (or Ousamequin), the Indian Sachem, in 1649: his w. Rose d. the next spring after their arrival, in 1621, and he m. a 2d w. Barbara, who survived him : his children were Alex- ander, Miles, Josiah, Charles, Lora, and John. Lora d. before him. He lived and died at the foot of the hill named after him 4t Captain's Hill." 2. Alexander (s. of Capt. Miles 1.) was made a freeman 1648, and lived on the paternal estate, at Captain's Hill, in Duxbury : he m. first Sarah, D. of the Hon. John Alden, and had Miles, Ebenezer, Lorah, Lydia, Mercy, Sarah, and Elizabeth : his wife d., and he then m. Desire, wid. of Israel Holmes, (formerly wid. of William Sherman, her maiden name Doten), and had Thomas, Ichabod, and Desire born in Marshfield 1689 : he d. in Duxbury 1702 ; she in Marshfield 1723. She named her children thus : William Sherman, John Holmes, Israel Holmes, Hannah Ring, Experience [wife of Miles] Standish, Desire Weston, and g. D. Desire Wermall. — Lorah m. Abraham Sampson. — Lydia m. Isaac Sampson. — Mercy m. Caleb Sampson. — Sarah in. Benjamin Soule, and Elizabeth m. Samuel Delano. — There was a David Standish killed in Duxbury by the fall of a tree in 1689 ; perhaps a s. of Alexander. 3. Miles (s. of Capt. Miles 1.) m. Sarah, D. of John Winslow, and went to Boston, where he d. a. 1666; and his wid. m. Tobias Payne 1669, and afterwards Mr. Richard Middlecot. 4. Ens. Josiah Standish (2d s. of Capt. Miles of Duxbury) lived in East Bridgewater, and first m. Mary, D. of John Dingley of Marshfield, a. 1654, who died the same year, and he then m. 303 STANDISH. Sarah, D. of Sam'l Allen of Braintree and sister of Sam'l Allen of E. B. He soon removed hack to Duxbury, where he became a Captain, Selectman, Deputy, and one of the council of war: he removed thence to Norwich, in Conn., probably a. 1686 : he had Miles, Josiah, and other children perhaps. His descendants arc also in New York, among whom Samuel has been a given name lor several generations. He bought 150 acres of John Parks of Preston, Conn. 1687. 5. Charles (s. of Capt. Miles 1.) we have no account of: his name does not appear in the records after his father's will in 1655 : perhaps he d. young. 6. John (son of Capt. Miles 1.) was named in the division of cattle, on the Colony records, in 1627, and we have obtained no further account of him. He no doubt d. young, as he was not named in his father's will in 1655. 7. Miles (s. of Alexander 2.) remained on the paternal estate at Captain's Hill, and d. there 1739. He m. Experience, D. of his mother-in-law by one of her first husbands (Sherman or Holmes), and had Miles, Sarah, Patience, Priscilla and Penelope ; the two last minors. Miles went to Bridgewater. — Sarah m. Abner Weston. — Patience m. Caleb Jenny of Dartmouth 1735. — Priscilla m. Elisha Bisbee perhaps of Pembroke. — Penelope d. single at Duxbury 1740. — The mother Experience survived her husband, and was perhaps the last of the family who resided at Captain's Hill. 8. Ebenezer (s. of Alexander 2.) lived in Plympton, and had Ebenezer, Zechariah, Moses, Hannah, Zeruiah, Sarah, and Mercy. He and his s. Ebenezer both died a. 1748. — Zerviah Standish m. Zebedee Tomson of Halifax 1745. — Ebenezer Jr. m. a Churchill 1739. — Sarah Standish in. Josiah Cushman Jr. 1749. — Mercy Standish m. Ehenezer Lobdell at Plympton 1736: her 2d husband was Benjamin Weston : she d. 1794, se. 78. 9. Thomas (s. of Alexander 2.) born a. 1687, first settled in Marshheld, and thence removed to Pemhroke, where his name appears in 1718: his wife Mary: they had David at Marshfield, and perhaps Amos; Thomas at Pemhroke 1725, Mary 1733, William 1737, Betty 1739, recorded by Daniel Lewis in Pem- broke 1742 as the children of Thomas and Mary Standish. — David m. Hannah Magoun 1746, and died 1793, leaving David, Lemuel, and several other children. — Lemuel went to Bath, m. Rachel Jackson, and had David 1777, and Lemuel, and one other son, and d. 1824, 03. 78. — Amos Standish, an adult, was bap. at Marshfield 1742 (or 1746.)— Thomas m. Martha Bisbee 1748. — Thomas Jr. d. in Pemhroke 1780. — There was a Miles Standish d. in Pembroke a. 1793, whose will is on record. 10. Ichabod (s. of Alexander 2.) m. Phebe Ring of Plymouth 1719: he was the man probably, a cooper, who died at Halifax 1772, leaving 3 Ds. Mary, Phebe, and Desire who m. David Hatch. 11. Miles Standish (s. of Miles 7.) m. Mehitahel Bobbins, pro- bably of Plymouth, 1738, and removed from Duxbury to S. B., STAPLES.— STARR. 309 and had Miles, Experience, Penelope, Hannah, and others per- haps : he d. 1784, ae. 80. Miles in. Naomi, D. of Daniel Keith, 1774, and had Miles, and went to Pennsylvania a. 1780. Expe- rience m. Simeon Ames 176-5. — Penelope m. Nathaniel Cobb Jr. of Plymp. 1703. — Hannah in. Daniel Fobes 1709. 12. Zechariah (s. of Ebenezer 8.) had Ebenezer, Hannah, Sarah, Abigail, Peleg, Zechariah. Zechariah Standish died at Plympton a. 1780.— Col. John Standish of Pittsburgh, N. Y., s. of a Doctor Standish, formerly of Plympton, Avas a descendant of Zechariah. — Abigail Standish m. Samuel Wright 1752: she was mother of Caleb Leach's wife. — Sarah Standish m. Josiah Cushman Jr. 1749. 13. Moses (s. of Ebenezer 8.) and his wife Rachel had Moses, John, Aaron, Rachel, and Rebecca: he died 1769, 33. 80. John Standish was drowned at Plymouth 17S7. — Rebecca Standish m. Zechariah Weston 1751. — Rachel and Hannah Standish were both m. at Plympton a. 1740. 14. Ebenezer (s. of Zechariah 12 perhaps) had Mary, Eben- ezer, Averick, and Shadrach. Shadrach d. at New Bedford 1837, SB. 92 : he in. Mary Churchill 1771, and had 3 ss. and 5 Ds., and 141 descendants. The Rev. Mr. Holmes preached a funeral ser- mon at his death, and therein stated that Capt. Miles Standish, the ancestor, was 51 years old when he arrived at Plymouth and 90 when he died ; but he d. Oct. 3, 1656, 33. about 72, according to the account given of it by the late Samuel Davis Esq. and history assures us he was appointed to command the troops raised to go against the Dutch, at Manhattan, in 1653, only three years before he died, and it is altogether improbable that he could then have been S7 years old : he was probably about 36 when he came over, which is corroborated by "New England's, Memorial," wherein it is recorded that he went in his "younger time" into the Low Countries as a soldier, and there becoming acquainted with the Church at Leyden came with them to N. England. He was a distant descendant (not a son as Mr. Holmes supposes) of the Rev. Henry Standish D. D., Bishop of St. Asaph's in the reign of Henry the 8th. Mrs. Bisbee, living in 1809 at Plympton, very aged, was a Standish b. at Captain's Hill in Dnxbury. — Betsy Bisbee Stand- ish d. in E. B. 1792, a3. 41. — Isaiah Standish was in Rochester 1805— Sarah Standish m. Daniel French of E. B. 1817.— Sam'l Standish of Lebanon, Conn., had a son Israel, and a D. Hannah. Israel had Elisha, Jonas, Amasa, and Nathan. Elisha had a s. Lodowick. — Nathan had two ss., one of them Thomas, living in Lebanon ; and another in Bozrah. — Ezra, a respectable man, and cousin of Lodowick, lived in Bozrah. STAPLES.— Samuel Staples m. Betty, D. of Noah Washburn, 1765, and had Molly in E. B. 1767.— Jacob Staples of T. m. Lois Edson. STARR. — John Starr was one of the original Proprietors of Bridgewater, but never came to reside here. 310 STARR.— STETSON. Jasper Starr and wife (from Boston) settled in S. B.: he died 1792, a;. 84 ; she d. 1802, se. 92 (Mrs. Starr d. 1792, ac. 90). He had James and Benjamin. Benjamin was drowned in a well 1779. — Polly m. Luke Leach 1788. — James Jr. in. Lois, D. of Benjamin Leach, 1797, and Peggy m. Libeus Leach 1797, and all went to Me. — James Jr. was a Magistrate in Maine, and had Harriot B. 1799, Louisa L. 1802, both b. in S. B. John and Martha Starr of Boston had Benjamin 1667. — Com- fort and Mary Starr of Boston had Joseph 1608, and Mary 1671. Benjamin Starr m. Mary Maylam 1713, and Eliza Story 1715. John Starr m. Abigail Day 1706. — [Boston records.] STETSON.— Abishai Stetson (from Pembroke) m. Sarah Crooker, and settled in E. B.,and had Molly 1762, Abishai 1764, d. 1771 ; Abigail 1766, Jonathan 1768, Sarah 1770, Abishai 1773, Bethiah 1776. He died 1777, &. 39, and his widow m. Solomon Packard 1779. Molly m. Benjamin Pincin 1787. — Abigail m. Dyer Robinson 1787.— Sarah m. Harlow Harden 1795. — Bethiah m. Calvin Keith 1794. — Capt. Isaiah Stetson, brother of the pre- ceding, lived also in his youth inE. B., with Col. Edward Mitchell. 2. Jonathan (s. of Abishai 1.) m. Huldah Magoun 1791, and went to Carver and afterwards settled in Marshfield, and had Abishai, Sumner, and others. 3. Capt. Abishai (s. of Abishai 1.) m. Alice, D. of Ezra Allen, 1796, and had Jennet 1797, died 1820; Sarah 1799, d. 1820; Ethan 1803, Naomi 1805*, Nalmm 1807, Nathan 1810, Alice 1813*, Caleb Strong 1815. His wife d. 1S21, and he m. Mary Johnson of Kingston 1821. — Nathan went to Pennsylvania, and there m., and was a Preacher, and has returned to E. B. — Ethan m. a Baker, and d. 1831 as. 29, leaving a D. 4. Nahum (s. of Capt. Abishai 3.) settled in S. B., and m. Sarah Wilson, D. of Rev. George Barstow of Hanson, and had George Barstow 1813, Sarah Lazell, Nahum, and Wm. Butler. 5. Peleg Stetson (from Abington) settled in E. B., and m. Ruth, D. of Perkins Gurney, 1775, and had Adam, Peleg, Char- lotte, Sally, Jane. Adam m. Parna, D. of Capt. Levi Washburn, IS 17.— Peleg m. Clarissa Gurney 1818.— Charlotte m. Jo. Reed 1807.— Sally m. Isaac Reed 1S03.— Jenny m. John Harden 1803. 6. John Croal Stetson lived in S. B., and afterwards in E. B.; m. Lois, D. of Simeon Leonard, 1795, and had Experience Davy 1797, Louisa Leonard 1799, James Oliver 1803, Mary Ann 181 1, and d. in S. B. His son James O. m. and lived in E..B , and then in W. B. — Louisa m. the Rev. Mr. Chace of Carver. — Mary A. m. in Foxborough. Wid. Elizabeth Stetson d. in E. B. 1800, a3. 77.— Abthiah Stet- son m. Moses Wade 1738, and Jonathan Chandler 1745, and d. 1792, 33. 85. — Whitcomb of Abington m. Lucy Snell 1796. — Ruth of Pembroke m. David Snow Whitman 1798. — Delpha m. James H. Gurney of Roxbury 1813. — Mary Crooker Stetson m. Timothy Hay ward 1817. — Wid. Experience d. in S. B. 1798, a?. 55. — Content m. Zenas Crooker. — Mary (or Mercy) m. Oliver STORRS.— STURTEVT— SWIFT.— TAYLOR. 31 1 Leach 1817. — Abishai Stetson of Kingston m. Elizabeth James of Hingham (or Cohasset) 1730. STORRS. — Elijah Storrs came from Connecticut and settled in S. B., and m. Susanna, D. of Isaac Swift, 1782, and had Susanna 1783, Martha 17S5*, and Mary*, and a son*. Susanna m. Newell Withington 1S08.— Mr. Storrs d. March, 1839, a?. 89. Mary Ann Storrs of Boston m. Laban Burr 1820. STURTEVANT.— Samuel m. Sarah, D. of William Packard, 1769, and had Zophar 1770. 2. Samuel m. Abigail Holmes 1816, (botb from Plymouth), and settled in E. B., and had Nahum Mitchell, Sherman Allen, Mary Jewett, Samuel Windsor, Elizabeth Bradford, Levi*, Silvanus*, James Henry*, John Tilton, Abigail Holmes, Nathan Dresser, Sarah Jane. 3. Silas (s. of Cornelius of Plympton) m. a Sampson and lived in N. B., and had Ephraim, Silas, Molly, and Elizabeth : he d. 1814, vs. 84. Betsy m. Lewis Johnson 1799. 4. Ephraim (s. of Silas above) m. xlbigail, D. of Robert How- ard, 1791, and had Lucy 1793, who m. Oliver Howard 1808. Sarah, D. of Caleb of Halifax m. Josiah Whitman 1774, and afterwards Jacob Mitchell 1791.— Patience, D. of Caleb of Hal- ifax m. Jonathan Ames 1783. — Jesse Fuller Sturtevant m. Anna, D. of James Alger 1771. — Silvanus m. Polly, D. (perhaps) of David Leonard, 1801. — Foster Sturtevant died in E. B. 1779. a?. 16. — James of Mid'o. m. Ann Leach 1769. — Deborah m. Isaac Doten of Hartford, Me., 1820. SWIFT.— Isaac Swift (from Sandwich) settled in S. B., and m. Susanna, wid. of Solomon Ames and D. of Samuel Keith, 1749, and had Jireh 1749, William 1752, Susanna 1754, Mary 1759 : he d. 1811 ; she 1836. William m. Rachel, D. of Simeon Leonard, 1795, but had no children : he died 1839, se. 87. — Su- sanna m. Elijah Storrs 1782. — Mary m. Capt. Jacob Leonard 1788. 2. Jireh (s. of Isaac 1.) m. Lucy, D. of Ebenezer Keith, 1776, and had Isaac, Martin, Sion, Ruel, Lois, and others. Isaac m. Sarah, D. of Nath'l Pratt, 1797.— Martin m. Sarah, D. of Alex. Ames, 1809. — Sion m. Susanna, wid. of Macey Hall and D. of Joshua Washburn, 1818. — Reuel m. Mary Borden of Mid'o. 1821. — Lois m. Walter Keyes 1793, and another D. m. Charles Brett. TAYLOR. — Benjamin Taylor and his w. Abiah (a 2d wife a wid. Peterson) lived in E. B., and had a,s. Benjamin who m. Martha Childs 1787, and had as. Walter, and others. Benjamin, the father, d. 1776, sb. a. 80; she 1800, se. 76. Archippus Taylor m. Hannah Warren 1778. — Benjamin Tay- lor m. Sarah Torrey 1784. THAXTER.— Maj. Samuel Thaxter (from Hingham) lived in E. B , and d. here Aug. 6, 1771. He was in the French war, and in Fort William Henry when it was surrendered to the French and Indians 1757, and was one of the few who escaped 312 THAXTER— THAYER. the massacre which followed by making his way to Fort Edward. He was father of Dr. Thomas Thaxter of Hingham, and Dr. Gridley Thaxter of Ah.: he had also a s. William who d. young. THAYER. — Richard Thayer arrived in this country from England a. 1640, and settled in Braintree 1041, with 8 children, Richard, Zechariah, Nathaniel, Jael, Dehorah, Sarah, Hannah, and Abigail. Richard, the son, m. Dorothy Pray 1651 ; they had Dorothy 1053, Richard 1055, Nathaniel 1658, Cornelius 1670, and both d. 1705. Nathaniel (s. of Richard Jr.) m. Hannah Harden 1679, and had Nathaniel 1680, Richard 1683, Hannah 1686, Zechariah 1687, Ruth 1689, Dorothy, Lydia, Daniel, Deborah, and Esther. 1. Richard (s. of Nathaniel) m. Susanna, D. of Sam'l White, 170S, and came to W. B.: he had Susanna 1710, Enos 1716, Anna 1718, Seth 1721, Micah 1724, Abijah 1726, Jeremiah 1729, Thankful 1731: he died 1760; she 1759. Susanna m. Daniel Field 1733. — Anna m. Benjamin Edson Jr. 1739. — Thankful m. Jacob Dunbar 1776. — No account of Enos or Micah. — In Thay- er's memorial it is said Susanna m. Joseph Lovell of St., and that Anna m. Ephraim Thompson of W. B., and settled in Hal- ifax. 2. Seth (s. of Richard 1.) m. Hannah Pray, and settled in N. Bridg. 1744, and had Enos 1744, Hannah 1748, Susanna 1749, Michael 1753*, Molly 1756, Seth 1760: he died 179S, 7 speaks of him as then living, and the records mention him as living in 1662, and no further account is obtained of him: the tradition is that he was lost at sea on a voyage to or from England : he probably had no family. 3. William (s. of the Governor) was a Major and Deputy Governor; lived in Kingston, near Duxbury, and wras one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater ; m. Alice, D. of Thos. Richards of Weymouth ; she was a very respectable woman, and in an eulogy, alter her death, on the colony records, was called " Mrs. Alice Bradford Jr.": they had John 1652, William 1655, Thomas, Samuel 1668, Hannah, and Mercy. His w. died, and he m. a wid. Wiswall, and had a s. Joseph. She died, and he m. Mary, wid. of Rev. John Holmes of Duxbury and D. of Dea. John Wood or Atwood of Plymouth, 1661, and had Israel, David, Ephraim, Hezekiah, Melatiah, Mary, Alice, and Sarah: some of these Ds. might have been born of the 1st or 2d wife : his last w. d. 1671, se. 44 ; he d. Feb. 20, 1704, se. 79. Thomas and Joseph went to Conn. — Hannah m. Joshua Ripley of Hing- ham. — Mercy and Melatiah m. men by the name of Steel in Conn. Israel m. Sarah, D. of Benja. Bartlett Jr., and he, Ephraim, and Hezekiah settled on the paternal estate in Kingston. — Mary m. Thomas or Samuel Hunt of Duxbury or Kingston. — Alice m. a Fitch of Norwich, Conn. — Sarah m. Kenelm Baker of Marsh- field, and was mother of the late Wm. Baker, Messenger of the Governor and Council, and of a Mrs. Scollay of Boston. — Rev. Timothy Alden said that the children by the first w. were Israel, Ephraim, Samuel, and John ; by the 2d Joseph ; and by the 3d William, Thomas, David, and Hezekiah, and that he had three Ds.; but query. 4. Joseph (s. of the Governor) in. Jael, D. of the Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, and had Elisha, and d. 1715, se. 84; she d. 1730, 33. 88. Elisha m. Hannah, D. of James Cole Jr.: it is also said he m. Bathsheba Le Brock, and had a son Carpenter, who went to Me., and several Ds.: one m. a Waters in Sharon, and her descendants are said to possess Gov. Bradford's Bible, in which is to be found a record of the family. 5. Maj. John (s. of William 3.) m. Mercy, D. of Joseph and Priscilla Warren, 1674 : her mother was Priscilla, D. of Mr. John Faunce, and sister of Elder Thomas Faunce, and niece of the Secretary Nath'l Morton author of the Memorial. Mercy was born 1653, he died 1736, she 174S, in her 94th year (Josiah Cotton's Diary says, a?. 90): they had John 1675, Alice 1677, Abigail 1679, 3Iercy 1681, Samuel 16S3, Priscilla 1686, William 16S8. John m. Rebecca/D. of Benjamin Bartlett Jr. of Dux- bury, and d. young, leaving a son, Capt. Robert. — Alice m. Ens. Edward Mitchell of East Bridgewater, his 2d wife 1708, and af- terwards Dea. Joshua Hersey of Hingham. — Abigail m. Gideon 360 BRADFORD. Sampson, but left no children. — Mercy m. Jonathan Freeman 1708, and afterwards Lt. Isaac Cushman Jr. — Priscilla m. Seth Chipman of Kingston. — William m. a D. of Dea. John Foster of Plymouth and d. young, and she then m. George Partridge of Duxbury : some of William's descendants settled in Plainfield, Conn. 6. William (s. of William 3.) m. Rebecca, D. of Benjamin Bartlctt of Duxbury, 1679: she died 1775; he 16S7 : they had Alice 16S0, Sarah 1683, and William. Alice m. William Barnes of Plymouth, and was g. grandmother of the late Hon. William Davis, and of Barnabas Hedge Esq. of Plymouth. — Sarah m. Jonathan Barnes and d. 1720. — William, it is said, m. Elizabeth Finney, but qu. 7. Samuel (s. of William 3.) m. Hannah Rogers and died at Duxbury 1714, se. 46 : he had Hannah 1689, Gershom 1691, Perez 1694, Elizabeth 1696, Jerusha 1699, Wealthy 1772, and Gamaliel 1704. Gershom m. Priscilla Wiswall 1716, and lived in Kingston. — Perez gra. H. U. 1713. — Gamaliel m. Abigail Bartlett 1728, and d. 1778, se. 73, and had Abigail 1728, Samuel 1729, Gamaliel 1731, Seth 1733, Peabody 1734, Deborah 1738, Hannah 1740, Ruth 1743, Peter 1745, and Andrew 1746, gra. H. U. 1771. Jerusha m. Rev. Ebenezer Gay of Hingham D. D., and Hannah m. Nathaniel Gilbert of Taunton 1709. — Col. Ga- maliel, son of Gamaliel above, m. Sarah, D. of Samuel Alden, and had Perez, Sophia, Gamaliel, Alden 1765, Jerusha, Sally, Daniel, and Gershom. — Perez lived on the paternal estate. — Gamaliel was a mariner and Captain of a Ship, and afterwards Warden of the State Prison in Charlestown, where he d.: he m. a Hickling, and had a s. Gamaliel gra. H. U. 1814, a Physician, who d. 1840 ; and another s. Geo. Partridge gra. H. U. 1825. — Hon. Alden gra. H. U. 17S6, first settled in the ministry in Me., and was afterwards Secretary of Mass.; m. Margaret Stevenson, and has a family in Boston. 8. David (s. of William 3.) m. Elizabeth Finney 1714, and d. 1730, and had Nathaniel 1715, d. 1751 ; Jonathan 1717, Lydia 1719, Nathan 1722. Lydia m. Elkanah Cushman 1740, and Lazarus Le Baron 1743, and d. 1756. 9. Samuel (s. of Maj. John 5.) m. Sarah, D. of Edw. Gray of Tiverton, s. of Edward Gray of Plymouth, 1714, and settled in Plympton ; he d. 1740, as. 56 ; she 1770 : they had John 1717, Gideon 1719, William 1720*, Mary 1722, Sarah 1725, William 1728, Mercy 1731, Abigail 1732, Phebe 1735, Samuel 1740. Mary m. Abiel Cook. — Sarah m. Ephraim Paddock. — Abigail m. Caleb Stetson. — Phebe m. Shubael Norton Esq. — John m. Elizabeth Holmes, and had Elizabeth, Molly, John, Priscilla, Perez, Hannah, Lydia, Oliver, Mercy, William, and Sarah. John m. Eunice, D. of Ignatius Loring Esq., and had Polly, Eunice, Olive, John, Nancy, Mercy, Sophia, Susanna, and Jane. 10. Gideon (s. of Samuel 9.) m. Jane Paddock, and d. 1793: they had Levi 1743, Joseph 1745, Sarah 1748, Samuel 1750, BRADFORD.— BREWSTER. 361 Gideon 1752, Calvin 1754, Jenny 1756. Sarah m. Freeman Ellis. — Jenny m. Noah Bisbee. 11. Hon. William (s. of Samuel 9.) m. Mary, D. of Dr. Laz- arus Le Baron of Plymouth 1751, and settled as a Physician in Bristol, R. I.; was afterwards an Attorney, Lt. Governor, and Senator in Congress : she d. 1775; he died 1608, ee. 80 : he had William 1752, Le Baron 1754, John 1758*, Mary 1760, Hannah 1762*, One 1764*, Hannah 1767, John 1768, Nancy, Ezekiel Hersey, and Lydia. William m. Betsy B. James, and had Wil- liam and others, and d. 1811. — Le Baron m. Sarah, D. of Thos. Davis of Plymouth, and had Le Baron 1780, and d. 1793, £e. 39. Mary m. Henry Goodwin, and d. 1834. — Hannah m. Dr. Gus- tavus Baylies of Uxbridge, and died 1811. — John m. Jemima Wardwell, and d. 1833. — Nancy m. James De Wolf, and both d. 1838.— Ez. Hersey m. Abby De Wolf, and then Abby Atwood.— Lydia m. Charles Collins Esq. of Newport. 12. Samuel (s. of Samuel 9.) m. Lydia Pease, and had Shu- bael, Sarah, Samuel, Edward Gray, Pardon, and Lydia. 13. Levi (s. of Gideon 10.) m. Elizabeth Lewis 1764: she b. 1743, d. 1813; he d. 1822: they had Lewis 1768, Joseph 1770, Levi 1772, Daniel 1774, Ezra 1776, Elizabeth 1778, and Sarah 1782. Lewis is now living in Plympton, and has an accurate geneological account of the Bradford family, to which recurrence may be had for all particulars here omitted. Joseph d. 1810. — Levi m. Mercy Sampson 1800. — Sarah m. Isaiah Tilson. 14. Perez (s. of John and g. s. of Samuel 9.) m. Sarah Prince, and had Christopher Prince, Louisa, Elizabeth, Deborah, Sarah*, Ruth, Lucy Prince, Perez, Hezekiah. His w. died, and he m. Lydia Cushman, and had Sarah, Joanna, and Salome. Louisa m. Miles Holmes. — Elizabeth m. Richard Sayward. — Deborah m. Samuel Bryant.— Ruth m. Jona. Ripley. — Lucy P. m. Theo- dore Cobb and then Hezekiah Cole. — Perez m. Deborah Davis. Hezekiah m. Margaret Parsons.— Sarah m. Oliver Churchill Jr. Salome m. William Bradford. BREWSTER.— William Brewster, b. 1560, came over in the first ship, the May Flower, 1620; was a ruling Elder in the Church at Plymouth: his w. (name unknown) d. between 1623 and 1627 ; he d. 1644, a?. 84 : he had Jonathan, Love, Wrestling, Patience, and Fear. (Lucretia, William, and Mary, are also set down as his children in a note in the N. E. Memorial, p. 221 ; but this is now considered by the learned and able editor himself as at least doubtful : probably Lucretia was wife of Jonathan, and William and Mary were probably his two eldest children.) Pa- tience m. Thomas Prince, the Governor, 1624, and died 1634. — Fear m. Isaac Allerton 1626, and d. 1633. — Wrestling d. single in youth. — The venerable Elder was one of the oldest men among the forefathers, being 60 when he arrived. 2. Jonathan (s. of the preceding) and his wife Lucretia, had William, Mary, Jonathan, and Benjamin. He removed from Duxbury to Norwich, Conn., after 1648, with his wife and sons. 46 362 BREWSTER— BROWN.— CARVER. Mary m. John Turner of Scituate 1645, and was living 1691. — William and Jonathan Jr. were on the military roll in Duxhury, 1643, the latter then 16 years old, and had an action in Court 1650. William was in the Naragansett war 1645. After these periods neither of their names appears on the records. — Benjamin was at New London 1661. 3. Love (s. of William 1.) m. Sarah, D. of William Collier (she afterwards m. a Parks); he died 1650; and had Sarah, Na- thaniel, William, and Wrestling. He lived and died in Duxhury, and was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater. Sarah m. Benjamin Bartlett of Duxhury 1656. — Nathaniel d. 1676, his family (if he had any) extinct : his name appears on Bridgewater records as a proprietor (of his father's share probably) 1666. 4. William (s. of Love 3.) was a Deacon in Duxbury, and had William and Benjamin. William, called Jr. 1722, had Ichabod, Job, and others. — William of Pembroke 1730, had a son Ichabod. — Benjamin was in Connecticut 1714. 5. Wrestling (s. of Love 3.) was a carpenter, d. 1696, leaving a wid. Mary, and had Jonathan, Wrestling, John, Mary, Sarah, Abigail, Elizabeth, and Hannah. One D. m. in Duxbury, and four of them in Kingston. — Jonathan went to Windham, Conn., after 172S and m. Mary Partridge in Duxb., who was living 1733. 6. Wrestling (s. of Wrestling next above) was a Deacon in Kingston, and had Wrestling, Thomas, Isaac, Elisha, Mary, &c, and d. 1767. 7. John (brother of the preceding) had Joseph and Job in Duxbury. 8. Nathaniel Brewster gra. H. U. 1642, a Clergyman, went to England and returned, and finally settled at Brookhaven, L. I., and d. 1690, leaving John, Timothy, and Daniel. This Nathaniel has been supposed to have been a descendant, perhaps a gr. son, of William. There are many descendants from the worthy Elder in Duxbury, Pembroke, Plymouth, Kingston, and elsewhere. BROWN. — John Brown was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and of course lived in Duxbury between 1645 and 1650. We have no certain account of him or his family, but take him to be the man who was chosen Assistant 1636, and often afterwards one of the Commissioners of the united Colo- nies from 1644 to 1655, and Avho died at Winnamoiset near Re- hoboth 1662. James Brown, an Assistant also, who lived at Swansey, was his son, and m. Lydia, D. of John Rowland. [See N. E. Memorial, p. 297, note.] Peter Brown came in the May Flower 1620, and whether he was father of John, or otherwise related, is not ascertained ; Martha and Mary (wife and D. per- haps) are named 1627. CARVER. — John Carver, first Governor of Plymouth colony, d. April 1621, and his wife soon after, and the old Colony records furnish no further account of his family. When he arrived in 1620 his family appears to have consisted of 8 persons, of whom John Howland was one, and is supposed to have m. Elizabeth, CARVER— CHANDLER.— CHURCH. 3G3 one of the Daughters. In the allotments of land in 1623, and in the division of the cattle in 1627, the name of Carver does not appear. A family however of this name was in Marshfield ever after 1638, at which date Robert Carver had a grant of land at Green's harbor, and died there 16S0, ce. SO. John Carver (son of Robert perhaps) d. in Marshfield 1679, re. 42, leaving- a wid. Milicent, who was D. of William Ford, and 8 children. William Carver (eldest s. of John) died at Marshfield 1760, 33. 102, and is noticed by Gov. Hutchinson and Dr. Belknap, in the biogra- phy of Gov. Carver, as the grandson of the Governor; but in Pemberton's Ms. Journal, in the library of the Mass. Hist. Soci- ety, he is called " the nephew of Governor Carver, being his brother's son." Joshua Carver, late of Marshfield, 03. over 90, was of the same family. John Carver (s. of John probably) lived in Plymouth, went from Marshfield 16S0, m. Mary, D. of Jonathan Barnes, and his son, Dea. Josiah, d. in Plymouth 1751, se. 63. There was a Richard Carver in Watertown, who died 1638, and in his will mentioned his wife Grace, and Ds. Eliza- beth and Susanna. Many of the name are still living in Plymo. and other parts of the old Colony. — [See Carver, p. 129.] CHANDLER. — Edmund Chandler was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, an inhabitant of Duxbury of course, before 1650. We have no particular account of him or his family. Those bearing the name, and probably his descendants, have been and still are numerous in the old Colony, and other parts of the country. — [See Chandler, p. 136.] CHURCH.— Richard Church came over 1630, then ob. 22 : propounded in Mass., where he first arrived probably, 1630, and made freeman in Plymouth 1632 : lived at Eel River in Plymouth till 1649, when he sold out and went first to Eastham probably 1649, and then to Hingham, where he had aD. Deborah b. 1657, and d. at Dedham Dec. 27, 1668 ; but was buried at Hingham ; his will dated at Hingham 166S ; was a Carpenter ; a volunteer against the Pequots 1637, called " Sergeant Church ;" made the gun carriages : he, with John Thompson, built the first meeting house in Plymouth a. 1637 ; m. Elizabeth, D. of Richard War- ren, a. 1635: she d. a wid.at Hingham 1670: he had Elizabeth, Benjamin 1639, Richard*, Joseph, Nathaniel, Caleb, Abigail 1648, and Deborah 1657. It is doubtful if he ever lived, or was really settled, at Eastham or Dedham. Being a Carpenter, and of some repute in his calling, he was doubtless employed much abroad, and at these places among others : he had early friends at Watertown and Charlestown, some of whom perhaps came over with him. Elizabeth m. Caleb Hobart at Hingham 1657, and died 1659. — Abigail m. Samuel Thaxter at Hingham 1666, and d. Dec. 1677. — Deborah m. John Irish Jr. perhaps of Little Compton. — The father gave Joseph, whom he made Executor of his will, a double portion on account of the " lameness of his hand." 2. Col. Benjamin (s. of the above) the famous warrior, was 364 CHURCH. born in Plymouth ; was of his father's occupation, a Carpenter; m. Alice, D. of Constant Southworth of Duxbury, 1G67, where he also settled, and thence removed to Saconet, Little Compton, about 1607, and was a magistrate for Saconet and Pocasset, which places included Little Compton and Tiverton ; appeared also among the first freemen of Bristol 1681, and was a Select- man and Deputy from Bristol in 1682, and d. January 7, 1718, se. 79, and was buried at Little Compton. He had Thomas (editor of his father's life), Constant (a Captain under his father), Benjamin, a bachelor, Edward (whose only s. was Dea. Benja.), Charles, who had a numerous family, and an only D. who m. a Rothbotham of Newport. His historians and descendants have erroneously said he was born at Duxbury ; knowing he went from thence to Saconet, they supposed he was of course born there ; but he was born at Plymouth, and was ten years old before his father with his family removed : his sister Abigail was born in Plymouth nine years after him. 3. Joseph (s. of Richard 1.) lived in Hingham,his wife Mary, they were m. about 1665, and had Mary 1666, John 1668, Alice 1670, Benjamin 1672, Sarah 1673, William 1675, Deborah 1677, all born at Hingham : he then removed to Little Compton, and was made freeman there 1682; was Ensign and Deputy there, and had other children probably : was one of the County Asso- ciates for Bristol Co. 1691 ; was also a Carpenter: he and his wife Mary are mentioned on the records there 1686 : she was no doubt from Hingham. His will 1711 mentioned Joseph, John, Eliza Blackman, Mary Wood, Deborah Gray, and Abigail Sim- mons: some of these were born probably after he left Hingham. It has been erroneously stated by Deane in his history of Scitu- ate, and by others, that Joseph was the father of Col. Benjamin, but this is only another of the traditional errors respecting this family. 4. Nathaniel (s. of Richard 1.) settled at Scituate ; was a Carpenter, which seems to have been the family calling : he m. Sarah Barstow, and had Abigail 1666, Richard 1668, Nathaniel 1670, Alice 1679, Joseph 1681, Charles 16S3, Sarah 1686: he died intestate before 1700. Abigail m. Nathaniel Harlow. — Richard and his wife Mary had Richard and two Ds.: one of them, Hannah, m. Josiah Sturtevant, and was grandmother of the late Josiah Cotton Esq. and Dr. Rosseter Cotton. — Nathaniel had Nathaniel 1698, Joseph 1709, and Ctdeb 1712 at Scituate. Joseph and Charles settled in Plymouth, and Joseph died there 1707, leaving a D. Judith, wife of Isaac Little. Charles after- wards went to Freetown and died there, called Captain 1729. — Sarah m. John Holmes. — Richard and Joseph were both dead before the estate was finally settled. — Nathaniel 3d m. Jerusha Perry 1719, and had Thomas and Lemuel 1742, and 13 others. Thomas Church m. Huldah, D. of Aaron Soule. — Thomas, son of Thomas, was a revolutionary soldier, and died 1S30. — Capt. Cornelius was son of Lemuel. — Caleb m. Sarah Williamson CHURCH— CLARK. 3G5 1735, and lived probably in Marshfield. — Ruth Church m. Con- sider Howland 1795. Deane's doubt as to the father of Nathaniel is groundless, as Richard of Hingham and Richard of Plymouth, whom he sup- posed to be distinct men, were one and the same man. 5. Caleb (s. of Richard 1.) m. Joanna, D. of William Sprague in Hingham, 1667, and had Hannah 1668, and Ruth 1670: he was named of Dedham 1672, and was living in Watertown 1690. [Fanner in his Register says he had Joseph, Caleb, and Benja- min, but query.] 6. Dea. Benjamin (s. of Edward, and g. s. of Col. Benja. 2.) gra. H. U. 1727, was Deacon of Dr. Mather Byle's Church in Boston, and author of a biography of his grandfather, the Col- onel, 1772, in which he erroneously calls the Colonel's father Joseph, and his parents " of Duxbury ;" the Deacon's son Ben- jamin gra. H. U. 1754, and was the famous Dr. Benjamin Church of Revolutionary distinction: another son, Edward, gra. H. U. 1759, was a Consul, and d. abroad; and a D. Abigail is said to have m. Turner Phillips of Boston. Col. Peter Church died in Bristol a. 1821, se. a. 80.— Samuel Church also died there, perhaps the gra. of H. U. 1778. — Rev. Nathan Church was of Bridgton, Me. 1799. — Rev. Aaron Church d. in Hartford, Conn., 1823, as. 77, b. in Springfield 1744, was in the ministry 41 years. — Capt. Joseph Church died at Fairhaven 1839, a3.87. — Gamaliel Church Esq. Representative from West- port 1839 and 1840. Many of this name, descendants no doubt of Richard, still reside in the old Colony, and have spread extensively over New England. CLARK. — William Clark was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, but we have no further account of him or of his family. There are many of this name in various parts of the county, and it is a very common name throughout the country. Richard Clark came over to Plymouth in the May Flower 1620, and d. before spring, and there is no further notice of him, or of any family left by him. Thomas Clark came in the Ann 1623, and m. Susanna, D. of wid. Mary Ring before 1631, and died at Plymouth March 24, 1697, os. 97, according to the grave-stone and the records of the town, but by his deposition given 1664, stating himself then to be only 59, he was only 92 at his death. It has been supposed he was mate of the May Flower, having gone back to Eng., and returned to Plymouth again in 1623, but this is not certain. He had William, James, Nathaniel (the Secretary), Andrew, and Susanna, who m. Barnabas Lothrop Esq. of Barnstable 1658. Thomas Clark of Plymoth m. wid. Alice Nichols of Boston 1664 : she was D. of Richard Hallet. — William Clark's house (a garrison house) was burnt in Plymouth by the Indians 1676, on the Sabbath, and 11 persons killed. — John (g. s. of Thomas) d. in Plymouth 1712, and had John, Jo- seph, and James. — Trustum Clark was in Plymouth 1634, and 366 COLLIER.— GUSHING. d. in Duxbury 1661, and had Trustum and Henry. — Isaac, son. of Joseph, went to Hard wick. — Whether William, whose house was burnt, was the proprietor of Bridgewater, is not known, if he was he must have lived in Duxbury before 1650. COLLIER. — William Collier was an original proprietor, a merchant adventurer, and came over about 1633 : he settled in Duxbury, and was an Assistant many years, and d. 1670 : he had Sarah, wife of Love Brewster (she afterwards m. a Parks); Re- becca, wife of Job Cole ; Mary, 2d wife of Thomas Prince, Gov. m. 1635 ; and Elizabeth, wife of Constant Southworth. CUSH1NG.— Peter Cushing of Hingham, Norfolk, Eng., had 2 ss., Theophilus 1579, and Matthew 15S8, both of whom came to N. England and settled in Hingham. 2. Theophilus came over 1633, then 54 years old, and lived some years at Gov. Haynes' farm near Boston, and finally settled in Hingham, where he d. nearly 100 years old, and was blind 25 years : he left no children. 3. Dea. Matthew, with his w., 4 ss., and one D., and his wife's sister, wid. Frances Riecroft, came over 1638, "in the Diligent of Ipswich, of 350 tons, John Martin, master," and settled in Hingham : he m. Nazareth, D. of Henry Pitcher : he d. 1660, sb. a. 72 ; she 16S2, ae. 95 : he had Daniel 1619, Jeremiah 1621, Matthew 1623, Deborah 1625, John 1627. Deborah m. Matthias Briggs. All of the Cushings in this vicinity, and in the State perhaps, descended from Matthew. 4. Daniel Esq. (s. of Matthew) was the 3d Town Clerk of Hingham, and left manuscripts, from which much information respecting Hingham and its early settlers has been derived : he m. Lydia, D. of Edward Gilman (ancestor of all the Gilmans) June 19th, 1645, and had Peter 1646, Daniel 1648, Deborah 1651, Jeremiah 1654, Theophilus 1657, Matthew 1660. She d. 1689, and he m. Elizabeth, wid. of Capt. John Thaxter and D. of Nicholas Jacob 1691, and d. 1700; she 1725, ae. 94. Deborah m. Benjamin Woodbridge 1679. 5. Jeremiah (s. of Matthew 3.) of Boston, a mariner, was lost at sea : his wid. Elizabeth mentioned her D. Elizabeth Condy, and g. s. Jeremiah Condy, and sister Martha Muzer in Redrif, near London. 6. Matthew (s. of Matthew 3.) of Hingham, m. Sarah, D. of Nicholas Jacob, 1653, and died a. 1700, and left no children: in his will he mentioned his brothers and most of his relatives: she made her will 1701, and mentioned most of her relatives. 7. Hon. John (s. of Matthew 3.) settled in Scituate, and m. (according to Deane in his account of Scituate) Sarah, D. of Nicholas Jacob, 1656 (this or the preceding must be an error : did not John m. Sarah, D. of Matthew Hawke ?): he was Deputy and Assistant in the old Colony, and Representative at the Gen- eral Court in Boston the year after the union 1692: she d. 1678, a?. 38; he 1708, ae. 81 : he had John 1662, Thomas 1663, Mat- thew 1665, Jeremiah 1666, James 1668, Joshua 1670, Caleb CUSIIING. 367 1672, Deborah 1674, Mary 1676, Joseph 1677, Benjamin 1679, and Sarah. Deborah m. Thomas Loring of Plymouth 1699. — Maryd. single 1698. — Sarah m. Dea. David Jacob 1689. — Joshua settled in Marshfield, and left no family. 8. Peter (s. of Daniel Esq. 4.) of Hingham in. Hannah, D. of Matthew Hawke, 1685, and d. 1719 ; she d. 1737, as. 82 : he had Peter 1686, Stephen 1687, Jonathan 16S9, Lydia who m. a Marshall, and Hannah who m. a Gushing. 9. Daniel (s. of Daniel Esq. 4.) of Hingham m. Elizabeth, D. of Capt. John Thaxter, 1680, and had Daniel 1681*, Elisha, Daniel, Moses, Elizabeth, Sarah, w. of John Jacob ; Ruth, w. of Samuel Lincoln ; Deborah, w. of Benjamin Loring; Abigail, w. of Richard Kilby of Boston ; and Sarah, who d. young probably. Daniel Gushing and his w. Sarah (he d. 1754) had Daniel, Eben- ezer, Sarah Smith : sister Elizabeth, gr. s. Thomas, and gr. ss. Thomas and Obadiah ITersey. — Daniel Cushing and his W.Eliz- abeth (he d. 1793) had Daniel, Susanna, Elizabeth Jones, Debo- rah Cushing, gr. s. Daniel, and brother Benjamin Lincoln. 10. Jeremiah (s. of Daniel Esq. 4.) gra. II. U. 1676, m. Han- nah, D. of Thomas Loring, 1685, and settled in the ministry at Scituate 1691 : he d. March 22, 1705, and his wid. m. John Bar- ker Esq., an attorney, 1706: he had Hannah 1687, Ignatius 1689, Jeremiah 1695, Ezekiel 1693. Hannah m. Samuel Barker, s. of her father-in-law, 1706. — Ezekiel settled at Cape Elizabeth, and his D. Lucy m. Dr. James Otis and was mother of the late Hon. Dr. Cushing Otis. — Wid. Ann Cushing d. at Boston 1759, and in her will mentioned her s. Jeremiah, and Ds. Mary Whea- ton, Susanna, w. of Jona. Goddard ; and Hannah. 11. Theophilus (s. of Daniel Esq. 4.) of Hingham m. Mary, D. of Capt. John Thaxter : his will 1718: he had Nehemiah 16S9, Adam 1692, David 1694, Abel, Theophilus, Seth, Deborah, and Lydia. Nehemiah settled in Abington or Pembroke. 12. Capt. Matthew (s. of Daniel Esq. 4.) of Hingham m. Jael, D. of Capt. John Jacob, 1684: she d. 1708; he 1715: he had David 1685*, David 1687*, Solomon 1692, Job 1694, Moses 1696*, Samuel 1699, Isaac 1701, Obadiah 1703*, Jael 1706. Job gra. II. U. 1714, ord. at Shrewsbury 1723, father of Jacob who gra. H. U. 1748, and who was ord. atWaltham, and whose s. John, gra. H. U. 1764, was minister of Ashburnham, and had a s. John of Boston who m. Julia Keith 1795 and died 1806, and had Julia Ann and Mary Keith. — Jael m. John Lazell of Hingham. 13. Hon. John (s. of John 7.) of Scituate m. Deborah, D. of Thomas Loring of Hull, 1687: she d. 1713; he 1737: he was Chief Just, of the Inferior Court of Plymouth, Counsellor, and then Justice of the S. J. Court : he had Sarah 1687, Deborah 1693, John 1695, Elijah 1697, Mary 1700*, Nazareth 1703, Ben- jamin 1706, Nathaniel 1709: he m. a 2d wife Sarah Holmes (a wid. perhaps, and D. of Capt. John Thaxter) 1714, and had Josiah 1715, and Mary 1716. Deborah m. Capt. John Briggs Jr. 1712, and her D. Deborah m. Thos. Savage Esq. of Boston, 308 GUSHING. and was grandmother of the Hon. James Savage. — Nazareth m. Benjamin Balch of Boston, and was mother of Nathaniel Balch "of facetious memory." — Nathaniel gra. H. U. J 728, read law in Boston, where he m. Mary Pemherton 1729, and died in one month after. 14. Hon. Thomas (s. of Hon. John 7.) m. Deborah, D. of Gapt. John Thaxter, 16S7, settled in Boston, and d. 1740 : he had John 1638, Thomas 1693, Jonathan 1701, Hannah 1702, w. of Thomas Hill; Margaret 1696, who m. a Fletcher; Elizabeth 1691, wife of John Wingate; Deborah 1699, w. of Jona. Watson; Samuel 1704, and others perhaps. Among the heirs who signed a receipt in the settlement of the estate in 1647 were the names of Jonathan, Jonathan (clerk), Peter, and William. Jona. Cushing's estate was settled in Boston by wid. Margaret Newman 1773. — Thomas Esq. (s. of Thos.) gra. H.U. 1711, lived in Boston, was Speaker of the H. of Rep. 1724, m. Mary Broomfield, and d. 1746, and had 2 ss. Thomas and Edward, and a D. Mary. Edward gra. H. U. 1746, and died 1752, not m. probably. — Hon. Thomas (s. of the last Thomas) of Boston gra. H. U. 1744, was the famous pa- triot, Member of Congress, Commissary General, and Lieut. Governor : m. Deborah Fletcher 1747, and died 1788 : and had Thomas, Edward, Mary who m. an Avery, Margaret, and Deborah who m. a Newman. 15. Matthew (s. of Hon. John 7.) m. Deborah, D. of Capt. John Jacob probably: he d. 1715: he had Jacob 1695, Matthew Deborah, Hezekiah, Rachel, Josiah, Sarah, and Noah. Heze- kiah Gushing d. 1781, leaving a wife Lydia, and 3 ss. Matthew, Thomas, and Nathaniel. Rachel m. Thomas Croade Esq — Jacob was probably father of Col. Charles Gushing of Lunen- burgh, whose s., the Hon. Edmund Cushing, is father of Luther S. Cushing Esq. Clerk of the House of Representatives. 16. Jeremiah (s. of Hon. John 7.) Deane says "we believe Jeremiah left no family." Jeremiah Cushing m. Judith Par- menter at Boston 1693, and we find also wid. Ann Cushing of Boston made her will 1759, and named her children thus : Jere- miah, Mary Wheaton, Susanna w. of Jonathan Stoddard, and Hannah. How these were connected, or if at all, with Jeremiah first above named, we cannot say. — [See Jeremiah 42.] 17. James (s. of Hon. John 7.) was Town Clerk of Scituate, and had a s. James who m. Sarah House 1710 and Lydia Barrell 1713. James Jr. had a s. James who m. Mary Souther of Co- hasset 1739, and aD. Lydia who m. George Cushing, and another D. who m. a Lapham. 18. Rev. Caleb (s. of Hon. John 7.) gra. H. U. 1692, ord. at Salisbury 1697, m. Elizabeth, D. of Rev. John Cotton and wid. of Rev. James Ailing of Salisbury, and d. 1752 : he had James, Minister of Plaistow, N. IT., gra. H. U. 1725, and John, Minis- ter of Boxford. Hon. Caleb, Member of Congress from Essex, is also a descendant. 19. Dea. Joseph (s. of Hon. John 7.) was a magistrate and GUSHING. respectable man, m. Mary Pickles 1710, and had a s. Joseph who gra. H. U. 1731, and was a Latin Schoolmaster in Seituate* 20. Benjamin (s. of Hon. John 7.) settled in Boston, and was a member of the Ancient and Hon. Artillery Company 1700. Deane says "we have not learnt that he left any family." There was a Benjamin Gushing who gave a power of attorney dated at Barbadoes 1702. There was also a Benjamin Gushing died at Boston 1792, who m. Mary Colesworthy, and left Benj., Thomas, Henry, Stephen, Josiah, Jonathan, Susanna wife of John With- ington and afterwards of Solomon Bryant of Mid'o., and Nancy w. of Joshua Bowcker of Scituate. Samuel Colesworthy Jr. and Benjamin, Adm'rs. Benjamin m. Abigail Callender 1799 and d. leaving two Ds. Betsy and Susanna, and the wid. m. Samuel Jepson. — Thomas died in Boston leaving Thomas, George W., Solomon Bryant, and John. — Henry also died in Boston leaving Henry W. and others. — Stephen lives in Ashburnham. — Josiah has no children. — Jonathan of the firm of dishing & Ames, Boston, m. Sally, D. of Nathan Lazell Esq. of S. B. 1809, and has a family. — Benjamin, who d. 1792, had a brother Ebenezer, who d. after him and left Jonathan, Benjamin, Mary, and Hannah. — Whether any of these last were descendants of Benjamin, at the head of them, we cannot say. Perhaps Benjamin and Ebenezer were ss. of Jonathan, s. of Hon. Thomas 14. 21. Capt. Stephen (s. of Peter 8.) of Hingham m. Catharine Rilby of Boston 1719, and had Stephen, Catharine who m. a Nichols, Lydia, Hannah who m. a Nichols, Rebecca, John, and Peter. John d. 1754 leaving no children. — Peter d. 17S4 leav- ing a w. Silence : he had John, Peter, Christopher, Catharine, Martin, Samuel, Hannah, Lydia, and Ned. 22. Elisha (s. of Daniel 9.) of Hingham m. Leah, D. of Thos. Loring (she was b. 1688, and her mother was Leah, D. of Benj. Buckley), and had Elisha, John, and Elizabeth w. of Col. Edw. Mitchell of E. B., m. 1738. Elisha, the father, d. 1734, Be. 52, and his wid. m. Jabez Wilder. Elisha, the son, d. 1786. 23. Moses (s. of Daniel 9.) and his w. Lydia had Lucy 1738, Catharine 1742, Elizab. and Deborah twins 1743, Deborah d. 1745. 24. Adam Esq. (s. of Theophilus 11.) gra. H. U. 1714, lived in Weymouth, m. Hannah (Greenwood perhaps) died 1751, and had Greenwood*, Adam, Thomas, Frederick, Beza, and Alithea w. of Samuel Pratt. Thomas died 1757 leaving a wid. Tabitha and 2 ss. Regemelick and Er, and a D. Tabitha perhaps. — Fred- erick d. 1786 leaving a wid. Grace. 25. David (s. of Theophilus 11.) of Hingham m. Rachel Lewis 1718, and had Rachel, Alice, and Hannah : his will 1723. 26. Abel (s. of Theophilus 11.) of Hingham and his w. Mary had David, Abel, Laban, Mary, and Abigail. Abel d. 1761. — Laban d. 1760, no children. — David had David, Jonathan, Ruth wife of Perez Cushing, Molly, Abel (father of the Hon. Abel Gushing of Boston), Charles, Hosea, Nancy, Jane, Lucy, Elna- than, Josiah, Jerusha, Mabel, and Lvdia. 47 370 CUSHING. 27. Seth (s. of Theophilus 11.) m. Lydia Fearing, and had Seth, Ezekiel, Mary, Margaret, and Deborah 1740 who m. Sim- eon Sampson. 28. Dea. Solomon (s. of Matthew 12.) of Hingham m. Sarah, D. of Thomas and Leah Loring, 1716: she d. 1765; he 1769: he had Mary 1717, Matthew 1720, Solomon 1722*, Benjamin* and Joseph* 1724, Benjamin 1725, Sarah 1727*, Joseph 1728, Isaiah 1730, and Caleb 1732*. Matthew d. at N. York 1779, ». 58. 29. Samuel (s. of Matthew 12.) and his w. Hannah lived in Cohasset, and had Isaac 1724, Jael 1726 (who m. a Bailey), Samuel 1729, Calvin 1731, Ephraim 1734, Joel 1736, Timothy 1738, Lois 1740, Solomon 1742, Job 1745. Samuel d. 1782, and had Beal, Sarah, Asa, and Samuel. Joel d. in Boston 1796, and his wid. Susanna settled his estate. 30. Hon. John (s. of Hon. John 13.) of Scituate, Judge of the S. J. Court, m. Elizabeth Holmes, D. of his father's 2d w., 1718, and had Deborah 1718, Sarah 1720 never m., John 1722: she d. 1726, and he m. Mary, D. of Josiah Cotton of Plymouth 1729, and had Mary 1730, William, March 1, 1732, Charles 1734, Hannah 1738, Bethiah 1740, Lucy 1745, Abigail 1748 d. single 1824, Rowland 1750 gra. H. U. 1768 an Attorney in Pownalboro and d. 1789 without children. John, the father, d. 1778, as. 82. Deborah m. David Stockbridge. — Mary m. Rev. Ebenezer Gay of Suffield. — Hannah m. Rev. Samuel Baldwin of Hanover. — Bethiah m. Abraham Burbank Esq. of West Springfield. — Lucy m. Thomas Aylwin Esq. of Boston. 31. Elijah (s. of Hon. John 13.) m. Elizabeth Barker 1724, and settled in Pembroke, and had Elijah, Nathaniel, Joseph, Mary wife of Gen. Benja. Lincoln, Deborah w. of Rev. Daniel Shute of Hingham, Elizabeth w. of Maj. dishing of Hingham. Elijah had Elijah who died at Natches, Thomas, Isaac, and Edward. — Nathaniel had Nathaniel Esq., Capt. Benjamin, Thos., and Charles Esq. — Joseph was Judge of Probate, and had Ho- ratio Esq. of Hanover. — Nathaniel Jr. Esq. had Dr. Ezekiel D. gra. H. U. 1808, and Elijah. 32. Josiah (s. of John 13.) m. Ruth Thomas, and settled in Pembroke, and was father of Capt. Josiah, Ruth w. of Hawkes Cushing, and others perhaps. 33. Rev. John (s. of Caleb 18.) gra. H. U. 1729, and was ord. in Boxford, m. Elizabeth Martyn at Boston 1740, and had John gra. H. U. 1761, and went to Freeport, Me.; and Rev. James, minister of North Haverhill, whom the Rev. Giles Merrill suc- ceeded, and whose D. he m.; she was mother of James C. Mer- rill Esq., Justice of the Police Court, Boston. 34. Dea. Joseph (only s. of Dea. Joseph 19.) gra. H. U. 1731, a grammar schoolmaster in Scituate, m. Lydia King 1732, and had Joseph 1733 gra. H. U. 1752*, George 1736, Mercy 1739, Nathan 1742, Pickles 1743, Hawkes 1744, Dr. Lemuel 1746 gra. H. U. 1767, Deborah 1752, Caleb and Alice 1754. George m. CUSHING. 371 Lydia, D. of James Cushing, and had Hannah w. of Perez Tur- ner, George, Robert late of Hull, Rachel w. of Pickles Cushing Jr., Mary wife of Dea. James Loring of Boston, and Lydia. Nathan, Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court, graduated H. University 1763, m. Abigail, D. of Christopher Tilden Esq. of Boston, 1777, and d. 1812 : he had Abigail w. of the Hon. Dr. Cushing Otis, Christopher Esq. (gra. H. U. 1794, m. Lucy Nichols 1817, and died 1819, and the wid. m. the Hon. Wilkes Wood) and Frances w. of Capt. Lemuel Cushing of Roxbury. Pickles m. Abigail Hatch 1768, and had Joseph, Pickles, Bela, Charles, Martin, Roland, Lucy, Abigail, and Sarah. — Hawkes m. Ruth, D. of Josiah Cushing, 1770, and had Dea. Thomas who d. 1825, Ruth, Maj. Isaac who d. in Boston, Sarah w. of Samuel Waterman, Capt. Lemuel of Roxbury, Nancy wife of George Cushing Jr., Clarissa w. of Dea. Joseph Stevens of Boston, and Charlotte w. of Col. Vose of the U. S. A — Alice m. Nathaniel Cushing of Hingham, who settled in Scituate, and had Nathaniel who m. Jane D. of Hay ward Pierce Esq., Deborah w. of John Nash, Betsy, Warren of New Bedford, Samuel late of Boston, Mary w. of Bela Cushing late of Boston, and Chauncy who d. 1813 ae. 19. 35. John (s. of Hon. John 30.) lived in Scituate, and had John of Berwick, Dea. Francis of Maine, and Nathaniel who died on the paternal estate 1S25. 36. Dea. Benjamin (s. of Dea. Solomon 28.) m. Ruth, D. of Thomas Croade Esq. of Halifax, 1753, and lived in Hingham : she d. 1803. sb. 67; he 1812, se. 87: he had William 1754, Ra- chel 1755, Benjamin 1758, Solomon 1760, Thomas Croade 1764, Matthew 176S, Charlotte 1771, Caleb 1773 d. at Charleston, S. C, 1795, Joshua 1775, Henry 1777, Jerom 17S0. Rachel m. Ezra Lincoln and d. 1797. — Matthew d. at Mid'o. 1S21, leaving a family. — Thomas C. d. in Salem 1824, leaving 5 ch. — Joshua d. in Lynn. — Jerom d. in Hingham 1S24, leaving 2 or 3 ch. 37. Joseph (s. of Dea. Solomon 28.) m. Sarah Leavitt 1757, and had Sarah 1757, Hannah 1760, Mary 1761, Jael 1764, Lydia 1770. His w. d. 1771, and he then m. Deborah Beal 1779, and had Joseph 1782. 38. Judge William (s. of Hon. John 30.) gra. H. U. 1751, C. Justice of S. J. C. of Mass., and then Judge of the S. C. of the U. S.; m. Hannah Phillip of Middletown, Conn., 1774, and d. 1810, his wife surviving, but no children. 39. Col. Charles (s. of Hon. John 30.) gra. H. U. 1755, Clerk of the Courts in Boston, m. Elizabeth, sister of Gov. Increase Sumner, and d. 1810 ; his only son Charles Esq. gra. H. U. 1796, went to Portsmouth, and the Ds. m. Charles Paine, Henry Sheafe, Stephen Codman, and Elisha Doane, Esqrs. 40. Benjamin (s. of Dea. Benjamin 36.) m. Lydia, D. of John Beal, 1781, and had Charlotte 1783 at Hingham, Lydia 1790 at Halifax, Benja. 1794 at Hal. Charlotte m. Josiah Sturtevant of Halifax 1804, and had Rolinda 1S06 at Pembroke, N. H. (w. of 372 CUSHING.— CUSHMAN. Welcome Young Esq. of E. B.) and Josiah 1S06*: she m. Eben'r Eastman, a 2d husband, 1816, and had Josiah S. 1S17, Charlotte C. 1S20, John B. 1823, Charles C. 1825.— Lydia m. Timothy Gile 1818. — Benjamin m. wid. Elizabeth Furnald 1815, and had John Beal 1816*, Lydia Beal 1817, Elizabeth Moore 1820: by a 2d w. he had John Beal, Charlotte Jane, and Mary Gile. The family is now principally in N. H. 41. Thomas Gushing m. Mercy Bridgham 1712 : her will at Boston 1746 mentions 3 children, Joseph Bridgham, Elizabeth w. of Samuel Holyoke, and Mercy w. of John Smith. 42. Jeremiah (Jeremiah 16, no doubt) who m. Judith Parmen- ter at Boston 1793, had Jeremiah 1696, Benjamin 1700, John 1705, Ebenezer 1710. Jeremiah was no doubt the husband of the wid. Ann there mentioned, as the records furnish a Jeremiah who m. Ann Coffin in 1715, and a Jeremiah who m. Ann Mor- temore 1723. — Benjamin m. Elizabeth Roberts 1725, and had Judith 1726, Benjamin 1729, Nathaniel 1731, Jeremiah 1733. — John m. Sarah Colesworthy 1727, and had Sarah 1727. — Eben- ezer m. Elizabeth Daniel 1732, and had Ebenezer 1735. — Ben- jamin Cushing m. Susanna Salter 1761, and had Benjamin and Susanna : he then m. Mary Colesworthy 1770, and had Thomas 1772*, Nancy 1774*, Thomas 1776, Henry 1778, Josiah 1780, Nancy 1782, Stephen 1784, and Jonathan 1786. — [See Jeremiah 16; and compare this also with Benjamin 20.] 43. Theophilus (s. of Theophilus 1 1 .) of Hingham m. Hannah Waterman probably 1723, and d. a widower 1778 : he had The- ophilus, Perez, Pyam dec'd, Emma w. of John Burr, and Tamar w. of Elisha Cushing of Pembroke dec'd, whose children were Elisha, Tamar, and Tamsin. 44. Pyam (s. of Theophilus 43.) d. 1776, leaving a wid. Han- nah : he had Pyam, Robert, Henry, Seth, Hannah, Deborah, Tamar, and Tamsin. Pyam Jr. lived with Col. Edward Mitchell in E. B., and died 1778, and in his will dated Jan. 4th, the same year, he gave a legacy to Mary, D. of Col. Mitchell, "his in- tended wife." She afterwards m. James Keith, and is now living in the State of New York, se. 86, and has a numerous family. — [See Keith, p. 214, No. 57.] 45. Jonathan and Bethiah Cushing had Jeremiah 1761, Phebe 1762, Mary 1766, Sarah 1770, Benjamin 1772. Rev. Jona. Cushing m. Elizabeth Cushing 1717. — Nathaniel m. Mary Pemberton 1729. — John m. Abigail Holder 1741. — Benjamin m. Susanna Salter 1761. — Jonathan m. Huldah Edes 1777. — Benjamin m. Betsy Godfrey 1788. — Benjamin Esq., Ben- jamin Jr., and Ann (single), all of Providence, convey land in Chelsea 1763.— Thomas m. Sally Newell 1799. The preceding account contains notices, quite imperfect in- deed, of but a part of this very numerous and respectable family. CUSHMAN. — Robert Cushman was among the Plymouth pilgrims: he set sail from England in the ship called the Speed- well in company with the May Flower in 1620, but by reason of DELANO.— EATON.— FAUNCE— FORD. 373 leakage the ship put back, and he came the next year, 1621, in the ship Fortune : he remained here but about one month, when he returned to England and d. a. 1625 or 162G : his family came after his death, and his descendants are now numerous in the country. He was author of tbe primitive lay Sermon. Thomas (s. of the above) born 1607, lived in Governor Brad- ford's family, having been left there by his father when he sailed for Eng.; m. Mary, D. of Isaac Allerton : he d. 1691 ; she 1699: he had Thomas, Isaac 1649, Elkanah, Eleazar, Sarah, and Lydia. Isaac was the first minister of Plympton, and d. 1732. — Sarah m. a Mr. Hook. — Lydia m. a Mr. Harlow. DELANO. — Philip Delano came over in the second ship, the Fortune, 1621, was in Duxbury between 1645 and 1650, and one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and sold his share to Nicholas Byram. The name on the early records was sometimes written De la Noye, hence he was supposed to be of French ori- gin, and one of the French protestants, who attached himself to the pilgrims at Leyden, and came over with them. He m. Hes- ter Dewsberry, and had Samuel, Thomas, and John, and was probably ancestor of the numerous families of the name still residing at Duxbury, and other towns both in the counties of Plymouth and Bristol, as well as in other parts of the country. EATON. — Samuel Eaton was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, was no doubt son of Francis Eaton, who came over in the May Flower 1620, whose wife was Christian, and whose children were in 1627 Samuel and Rachel. Samuel set- tled probably in Duxbury : he must have been there between 1645 and 1650. — Francis had afterwards other children doubt- less, and his descendants are still in Middleborough and various other towns and sections of the country. FAUNCE. — John and Manasseh Faunce arrived at Plymouth in the third ship, the Ann, in 1623. We have met with no fur- ther notice of Manasseh. John Faunce m. Patience, D. of George Morton, and had Thomas 1646, and Priscilla, and perhaps others. Priscilla m. Joseph Warren about 1650. — Mary Faunce m. William Harlow 1658. — Mercy Faunce m. Nathaniel Holmes 1662. — These two might also have been Ds. of John. Thomas (s. of the above) was the distinguished Elder of Ply- mouth Church, and d. J 745 very aged: he had Patience 1673, John 1678, Martha 1680. Many descendants of these respecta- ble ancestors are remaining in different parts of the County. FORD. — William Ford was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater ; was son no doubt of wid. Ford, who arrived in the Fortune 1621 with three children, viz: William, Martha, and John ; and it is said she had a son born the day the ship arrived : how long had she been a widow ? William Ford sen'r, on the military-roll at Marshfield 1643, d. 1676, se. 72; his wid. Anna: his children were William, Michael, Margaret, and Milicent ; one of them wife of John Carver ; his grand children were John, 374 FORD.— HALL.— HOBART. and William Ford, and John Carver. — Martha, D. of wid. Ford, m. Win. Nelson 1640. — William Ford, the proprietor of Bridge- water, whoever he was, must have been in Duxbury between 1645 and 1650. The name is still common in Marshfield, Abing- ton, and other parts of the County. HALL. — Edward Hall, one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, was of course an inhabitant of Duxbury before 1650. We have no particular account of him or his family. — Joseph Hall of Yarmouth m. wid. Mary Morton, relict of John Morton : she was a Faunce : Morton died of a grievous wound 1709. The name is still common in the old colony. There was an Edward Hall at Cambridge 1636. HOBART. — Edmund Hobart with his wife and son Joshua, and Ds. Rebeckah and Sarah, and his servant Henry Gibbs, came from Hingham, Old England, and settled here inHingham, New England, 1633: his ss. Edmund, Thomas, and Rev. Peter, also soon followed him, the two former the same year, and the last in 1635 : they first lived in Charlestown ; but when the Rev. Peter arrived with a number of his church, they soon began to explore the country, and went up a small river at the bottom of Boston Bay, now called Hingham Cove, where they found a few of their friends, whom they immediately joined, being pleased with the situation, and at once concluded to settle there, and called the place Hingham, from whence the Hobart family had all come excepting Thomas, who came from a place called Windham, near old Hingham: he d. 1646; she 1649: her name is not given. One of the Ds. m. a Beal, and a sister of Edmund sen'r. m. a Gilman (probably Edward). The Rev. Peter in his church records speaks of his father and mother Hobart, and David, son of Peter, who continued the records after his father Peter's death, mentions his great aunt Gilman, and the deaths of his uncle Edmund and Thomas (and their wives, calling them also his aunts), whence we are confirmed in the knowledge of their being sons of Edmund sen'r. 2. Edmund (s. of the above) with his wife Elizabeth arrived in 1633 : she d. 1675 ; he Feb. 16S6, se. 82 ; his will, dated 1684, calls himself Weaver : their children were Elizabeth, Sarah 1640, John 1642, Samuel 1645, Martha 1647, Daniel 1649. Elizabeth m. John Tucker 1657.— Sarah m. Return Manning 1664, and had a D. Mary. — John m. Hannah Burr 1674 and died, and his wife settled his estate 1675 : he had one only child Hannah. — Samuel m. Hannah Gould 1674, and died 1718, as. 74, and had Edmund 1674, Samuel 1677*, Hannah 1679*, Samuel 1681* drowned in a well, Hannah 1683, Peter 1685. — Martha m. Joseph Basset of Bridgewater 1677. — Mary Hobart 1638 who m. John Hugh 1664 might also have been his D. 3. Thomas (s. of Edmund 1.) with his wife Jane and three children came over 1633, and settled in Hingham: he d. 1689, aa. 83 ; his w. d. 1690 : he had Caleb 1632, Joshua 1639, Thomas 1649, Mehitabel 1651, Isaac 1653, Hannah 1655, Moses 1656, HOBART. 375 Aaron 1661, Nathaniel 1665. Caleb settled his father's estate (de bonis non) 1690. — Mehitabel m. John Lane 1674. — John Magoun was his son-in-law. — Hannah m. John Records 1672. — Moses died in prison at Boston 1686. — Aaron's w. was Rebecca, and undertook the settlement of her husband's estate in 1705, and completed it in 1724, and then called herself Rebecca Der- by wid. of Edward Derby of Weymouth dec'd, and mentions 2 ss. only, Isaac and Aaron Hobart : Aaron died 1726, 33. 23, un- married, and Isaac settled his estate 1726. — Thomas, by the con- sent of his father Thomas, puts himself an apprentice to John Nash of Boston, cooper, 1670. — Joshua Hobart and his w. Mary (her former husband was Jona. Rainsford) of Boston, quit her right to her former husband's estate 1674 : he died in Braintree 1713, no ch. 4. Rev. Peter (s„ of Edmund 1.) with his w. Rebeckah and 4 ch. came over in 1635, and settled in Hingham : he d. 1679, 33. 75 ; she in 1693, 33. 73 : his will 1678, proved 1679 : if this is correct he was 16 years the eldest : he speaks of his mother Ibrook's death 1664, it may be therefore that his w. was an Ibrook : he had Ichabod 1635* at Charlestown, Hannah 1637*, Hannah 1638, Bathsheba 1640, Israel 1642, Jael 1643, Gershom 1645, Japhet 1647, Nehemiah 1648, David 1651, Rebeckah 1654, Abi- gail 1656, Lydia 1659, all born here : the 4 children who came with him were Joshua 1628, Jeremiah 1630, Elizabeth 1632, Josiah 1633; in all 17 ch. Joshua was a Minister of Southhold, L. Island, and died 1717,33.89. — Jeremiah gra. H. U. 1650, was Minister at Topsfield, Hampstead, and Haddam, Conn., and d. 1717, se. 87.— Elizabeth m. John Ripley, and d. 1692, 33. 60.— Josiah bought of Ralph Woodward formerly of the city of Dub- lin, then of Hingham, land in Ireland 1658, and Avith his wife Priscilla sold land to one Gross in 1677, and died on L. Island 1711, aa. 78: he had John, and Daniel, and perhaps others. — Hannah m. first John Brown and then John Rogers of Salem, and d. 1691. — Bathsheba or Bashua, first m. John Leavit 1664, and then m. Dea. Joseph Turner of Scituate, and d. 1724, 33. 84. Israel d. in Scituate 1731, 33. 89, his will 1729 : his w. was Sarah, D. of the Rev. Wm. Wethrell of Scituate, m. 1674, and settled in Scit. 1676, his house in Hingham having just been burnt by the Indians: he had Nathaniel 1675, Rebecca 1676 b. at Hing- ham, Nathan and Abigail 1678, Jael 1680, Israel 1682 : in his will he also mentions Mary Witherton, Grace Davis, and Bath- sheba Bradford, children of " my D. Sarah Brock." Jael was executrix. — Israel Jr. was a householder in 1723, and had Pa- tience, and Grace. — Jael, D. of Rev. Peter, m. Joseph Bradford of Kingston, and d. 1730, 33. 8S. — Gershom gra. 1667, was Min- ister at Groton ord. 1679, and died 1707, 33. 62; Gershom and Sarah Hobart had a D. Hepzibah 1675. — Japhet gra. 1667, was lost at sea, a Surgeon. — Nehemiah was Minister of Newton, and died 1712, se. 64 : he m. Sarah, D. of Edward Jackson : he sold land in Hingham commons to his D. Rebeckah in 1712. — David 376 HOBART. first m. Joanna Quincy, and then Sarah Joyce of Boston : his last w. d. 1729, 03. Go, was then a widow : she mentions his ch. by his first wife, viz : Judith Crocker whose first husband was a Leavit, Jael Leavit, Abiel Hobart, Rebeckah Nichols : also her own ch. by him, viz : Sarah w. of John Humphrey, Lydia, Ne- hemiah, David, Noah. — Rebeckab m. Daniel Mason 1679. — Abi- gail d. 16S3, as. 26. — Lydia m. Thomas Lincoln 1690, and died 1732, ae. 73. — The wid. Rebeckah, mother of the above named children, survived her husband, the Rev. Peter Hobart, and made her will 1693, David executor, and mentions also Nehemiah, Rebeckah Mason, Lydia Lincoln, Japhet " if he be still living and shall come in person to demand the legacy," and names no other of her children. 5. Capt. Joshua (s. of Edmund 1.) came over with his father, and m. Ellen Ibrook of Cambridge 1638: he d. 1682, se. 68 ; she about 1700: he had Hannah 1639, Peter 1642, Sarah 1644, Deborah 1647, Joshua 1650, Solomon 1652, Enoch 1654: in his will 1682 he thus names his children, viz : Joshua, Enoch, and Edward Cowell and Joshua Lincoln sons-in-law, gave to his Ds. husbands all his lands at a place called by the Indians " Tuncke." Hannah m. Joseph Grafton 1657. — Peter made a will at Barba- does 1665, and gives all his estate to his wife Susannah, but if she should have a child makes provision for it, and mentions his brother Jacob Elliot. Sarah m. Edward Cowell 166S. — Deborah m. Joshua Lincoln 1666, and d. 1684, se. 37. — Joshua and his w. Faith sold land to Daniel Cushing in 1684, he Avas a mariner. — Solomon was a mariner 1683 : he had 2 ch. b., and d. 1682. — Enoch Hobart, boatman of Boston 1691 : his w. Hannah, D. of Thomas Harris, m. 1676, and had Hannah 1677*, Ruth 1678, Hannah 1680, Thomas 1683, Deborah 1685.— Eleanor, Helen (or Ellen) the mother d. a. 1700, and her estate was settled by her grandson Joshua Lincoln. — Hannah, D. of Capt. Joshua the son perhaps, d. 1731. 6. Daniel (s. of Edmund 2.) was a Weaver: he m. first Eliz- abeth Warren of Boston 1677, and had Ruth 1678, John 1682*, Joshua 1683, Jeremiah 1684*, Mary 1686, Solomon 1693 : hem. a 2d wife, Patience, and made his will 1704, and mentions only Joshua, Solomon, and Mary : " in case his now wife should have a child" he makes provision for it. — Mary m. Isaac Peterson of Duxbury : he had a D. Patience also who m. David Garnett 1731. — The wid. Patience m. Ibrook Tower 1714. 7. David (s. of the Rev. Peter 4.) m. Joanna, D. of the Hon. Edmund Quincy, and had Josiah, Rebeckah, Jael, Judith 1681, Peter 1684*, Abiel 16S5. He m. Sarah Joyce at Boston 1695, had Nehemiah 1697, Joseph 1699*, David and Sarah 1702, Lydia 1704, Noah 1706: his 2d w. d. 1729, 93. 65; he d. 1717, 33. 67. Rebeckah m. Jazaniah Nichols 1714. — Jael m. Jeremiah Leavit 1712 and d. 1740, w. 52. — Judith m. Joseph Leavit 1711, and afterwards a Crocker. — Noah was Minister at Fairfield, Con., ord. 1732 : he m. Priscilla, wid. of Isaac Lothrop and of John HOBART. 377 Watson Esq. and D. of Caleb Thomas : she died 1796, jb. 90. [See David under Rev. Peter 4.] 8. Solomon (s. of Daniel 0.) was a Weaver : his will 1736, d. 173? b , falling into the fire in a fit, 33. 44 : gave his brother Joshua £5, his sister Peterson two-thirds, and his sister Garnett one-third of his estate. Isaac Peterson ex'or, James Hobart a witness. 9. Rev. Nehemiah (s. of David 7.) was Minister at Cohasset: he m. Lydia Jacob, and had John Jacob 1725*, Sarah 1727, Jerom 1729*, Justin 1731, Lydia 1733, Hannah 1735, John Ja- cob 1737*. His w. died 1737, as. 32, and he m. Elizabeth Pratt 1739, and died 1740, se. 43 : his widow gave a receipt to Wm. Penniman ex'or of the will of her honored mother Ruth Thayer for a legacy given her by her mother's will 1742, and she m. Jona. Merrit of Scituate 1742 : Hannah as. 7, and Lydia 33. 9, were put under guardianship of their uncle Jazaniah Nichols : Justin se. 11, and Sarah se. 14, were put under guardianship of John Jacob 1741. 10. Isaac (s. of Aaron and grandson of Thomas 3.) settled in Abington : he m. Mary, D. of John Harden, 1724, and had Aaron 1729, Thomas 1725, John 1738, Mary 1735. 11. Caleb (s. of Thomas 3.) settled his father's estate 1690, and settled in Braintree a. 1697: he d. 1711, 33. 89: his 2d wife was Mary Elliot, m. 1662 : his 1st w. was Elizabeth Church, m. 1657, she d. 1659: (he had another w., wid. Elizabeth Faxon, m. 1676 : his 2d wife Mary died 1675), he had Mary 1663, Caleb 1665, Elizabeth 1666, Benjamin 1677, Hannah 1668, Josiah 1670. Caleb m. Hannah Sanders 1704, but had no children. — Hannah m. Jona. Hayden 1692.— Old wid. Hobart d. in Braintree 1704. 12. Josiah (s. of Caleb 11.) of Braintree m. Mary Cleverly 1695 : his 2d w. was Sarah Savil, m. 1719 : he d. 1725 ; his estate was settled 1725: he had Caleb 1696*, Josiah 1697, Mary 1701, she died se. 26, John 1704, Susanna 1724. John Copeland 1741 called the 1st w. Mary his deceased sister. 13. Benjamin (s. of Caleb 11.) of Braintree m. Susanna New- comb 1699 : she settled his estate 1718 ; she died 1725 : it was divided among his heirs 1727, who were Benjamin, Caleb, Su- sanna (or Ann), Peter, Israel, Joshua. Wm. Everett of Dedham was their uncle : inventory taken by Josiah Hobart and others. 14. Nathaniel (s. of Thomas 3.): his will 1734 : m. wid. Mary Stowell 1695: she was D. of John Beal : no children are men- tioned : he gave lands and<£100 in money to his cousin (nephew) Isaac Hobart, to Rev. Mr. Gay one-eighth of his saw-mill ; men- tioned his gr. daughter-in-law Mary Joy ; son-in-law John Stow- ell, and gr. son-in-law Jedediah Joy, ex'ors. In 1689 he sold land to John Lane : David and Lydia Hobart, witnesses. 15. Edmund (s. of Samuel probably and gr. s. of Edmund 2.) m. Abigail, wid. of Ebenezer Whitman of S. Bridgewater 1714 : she was a Burnham : he resided with his wife at Bridgewater : was there 1727. 48 378 HOBART. 16. Rev. Justin (s. of Rev. Nehemiah 9.) was Minister of Fairfield, Conn.; m. Hannah Fairfield of that place 1772, she was b. 1738: he had Ellen 1764, Mary 1765, Jerom 1768*, Noah 1769, Justin 1772, Lydia 1774, Hannah 1777, John Sloss 1781, d. at New York 1803. His wife d. 1809, se. 71 ; he died 1789. Ellen m. Hezekiah Gold 1786, and had a D. Debby, and Gold was then drowned at New York, and his wid. m. Dr. Stephen Middlebrook of Stratford 1793. — Lydia m. Stephen Beers 1796. Justin m. Desire Burr (b. 1782) of Huntington 1804, and had Re- becca 1806, Jane 1809. 17. David (s. of David 7.) and his w. Rachel had David 1728, and probably Joseph and others : he d. 1780, a?. 72 ; his wife d. 1734. David d. at Cape Breton 1746. 18. Joseph (s. of David 17 probably) m. Sarah Warrick 1750, and had Sarah 1752, Esther 1754, Anna 1755, Rachel 1757, Jo- seph 1759, Nehemiah 1761, Jeremiah 1763, George 1768, Sibee (or Zibeah) 1770: his w. d. 1783, ee. 53. 19. James Hobart's will 1744, he was b. 1689 : his w. Hannah : he named his children thus : James, John, Lydia Bates, and Su- sanna Todd. Samuel Hobart a witness : whose son he was, not ascertained. 20. Col. Aaron (s. of Isaac 10.) of Abington m. first Elizabeth, D. of Jacob Pillsbury, and had Seth, Nathaniel, Aaron, Noah, Isaac, Elizabeth w. of David Jones Jr., Sarah who m. a Lewis of N. Yarmouth : Nathaniel gra. H. U. 1784, d. 1830, and left no family : Isaac went to Me. His 2d w. was Thankful, wid. of Elihu Adams of Randolph ; she was D. of Joseph White Jr.: they had Benjamin, Salome, Thankful, Mary. Salome m. Mar- cus Alden. — Thankful m. a Perry. — Mary m. a Brigham. — Benjamin Esq. m. Lucy, D. of Gen. Silvanus Lazell, and then Deborah, D. of Capt. Edmund Lazell, and has a family. 21. Thomas (s. of Isaac 10.) m. Jane Bailey, sister of Col. John Bailey of Hanover, and lived in Pembroke (now Hanson), and had Isaac, Thomas, and several Ds. One, Hannah, m. An- drew Leach. — One, Anna, m. Joseph Gannett. — One, Jane, m. Daniel Perry. — One, Polly, m. Thomas Wales. — One, Rachel, m. Jotham Cushman. — One m. a Sawyer. — Sarah m. Nehemiah Thayer 1785, and d. 1792. — One m. a Sayles. 22. John (s. of Isaac 10.) of Abington m. Mary, D. of Mat- thew Allen of East Bridgewater, 1765, and had John Esq. who settled in Leicester. He died, and his wid. Mary m. a Bearce. 23. Seth (s. of Col. Aaron 20.) of E. Bridgewater m. Esther, D. of Jonathan Allen of Braintree, 1782, and had Betsy 1783, Jacob 1784*, Jonathan 1786, Seth 1788*, Polly 1790, Eunice 1795*, Joseph 1796, Esther 1798, Allen 1S01*: she d. 1813; he 1814. 24. Aaron Esq. (s. of Col. Aaron 20.) of Abington m. Susanna, D. of Peter Adams, and had Aaron, Elihu, Susan, Sally, Abby. Honorable Aaron in. Maria, D. of Andrew Leach, and has Susan, Aaron, George, Maria, Edward, John, Catharine. — Elihu HOBART.— HOWLAND. 379 has also a family.— Susan m. a Hayden, and then Jared Whitman Esq. — Sally and Abby both m. Dr. Champney. 25. Noah Esq. (s» of Col. Aaron 20.) of Foxborough m. Deb- orah W., D. of James Thomas 1789 : she lived with her grand- father Anthony Winslow in East Bridgewater, her father died when she was young : he had James T., Nathaniel, Aaron, Albert, Deborah, Jane. Nathaniel was lost in the steamboat Lexington 1840.— [See Hobart p. 188.] Sarah Cleverly, D. of Capt. John Hobart, d. in Boston 1696. There was a Solomon Hobart born 1689, — [See Thayer's family Memorial for a further account of the Hobart family.] HOWLAND.— John Howland came over in the 1st ship 1620 : his wife Elizabeth, D. of Gov. John Carver, and two children, John and Desire, came afterwards, 1627: he was one of the Governor's Assistants many years, and a very respectable and useful man in the infant Colony : he died 1672 at Rocky Nook, near Kingston, as. a. 80, on which occasion it is recorded " that he was the last of the male survivors of those who came over in the May Flower in 1620, and whose place of abode was Ply- mouth." By not attending to the last words of this extract Farmer in his Appendix, as well as others, have been drawn into a seeming doubt. Howlaud was only the last of these pilgrims, who lived and died in Plymouth. John Alden certainly in Dux- bury, and perhaps others of them out of Plymouth, survived Howland. Alden outlived him 15 years. Howland had John who m. Mary Lee and settled in Barnstable, Jabez who m. Bethiah Thacher of Yarmouth and finally settled in Bristol and who was an early Lieutenant under Capt. Standish, Joseph who m. Elizabeth only child of Thos. South worth 1664 and lived in Plymouth, Isaac who m. Elizabeth D. of George Vaughn and settled in Mid'o. and d. there 1724, Desire who m. John Gorham 1643 who lived in Plymouth, Marshfield, Barnstable and Swan- sey where he d. 1675, ee. 54, Hope who m. John Chipman of Plymouth and then of Barnstable, Elizabeth who m. Ephraim Hicks of Plymouth and then John Dickerson of Barnstable, Lydia who m. James Brown of Swansey, Hannah who m. a Bozworth of Hull or Swansey, and Ruth wrho m. Thos. Cush- man of Plymo. 1664. — Isaac Howland had Isaac, Seth, Nathan, Priscilla Bennet, Susanna Wood, Jael Southworth, and Eliza- beth Tinkham. Joseph (s. of John) m. Elizabeth, only child of Thos. South- worth, 1664, and had Thomas, James, Lydia, Mercy, Eliza, Nathaniel. Thomas (s. of Joseph) m. Joanna, D. of James Cole, 1699, and had Consider 1700, Experience 1705, Thomas 1707, Eliza- beth 1710, Hannah 1712, Joanna 1716, Joseph 1718. Experience m. Benja. Lothrop. — Hannah m. Charles Dyer, and afterwards Edward Winslow. — Joanna m. Gideon White 1744 : he d. 1779. Nathaniel (s. of Joseph) m. Martha, D. of James Cole, 1697, and had Joseph 1699, Mary 1702, Nathaniel 1705, Joseph 1708. 380 HOWLAND.— HUNT— IRISH.— LORING. Consider (s. of Thomas) m. Ruth Bryant 1725 (born 1704), and had Lucy 1726, Eliza 1728, Ruth 1730, Mary 1732, Thos. Southworth 1734 d. 1779, Consider 1735 d. 1743, Joanna 1737 d. 1799, Martha 1739, Bethiah 1743, Consider 1745 d. 1780, Experience 1748, Joseph 1751 d. 1806, Hannah 1753 d. 17S0: he d. 1759, she 1775. Lucy m. Abraham Hammatt 1748. — Ruth m. Benjamin Crandon. — Mary m. Dr. William Thomas, whose 2d w. was aBridgham. — Martha m. Isaac Le Baron. — Experience m. Samuel West.— Bethiah m. a Delano. Henry Howland was among the first proprietors of Bridge- water, and of course at Duxbury at that peripd. It is said he and Arthur Howland of Marshfield, 1643, were distinct families from John of Plymouth, and we have no very particular know- ledge of their families: their descendants are however no doubt among those of the name living in the lower towns in the county, and the name is common throughout the old colony. Deborah, D. of Arthur, m. John Smith of Plymouth 1648. — Martha How- land m. John Damon of Scituate, his 2d w. 1659. — A Collins of Lynn m. a Howland. — Consider Howland of Marshfield m. Ruth Church 1795, and removed to Scituate and had a son Luther. HUNT.— Edmund Hunt was at Duxbury before 1650, and a proprietor of Bridgewater, and sold his right to Samuel Edson. We have no further account of him or of his .family. The name remains in the county, but whether his descendants are here or not we are not certain. IRISH. — John Irish was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, and John and George Irish were both at Duxbury before 1658, and were both among the first planters of Saconet. John Irish of Duxbury, roper, with the consent of his wife Elizabeth, sold his share in the new Plantation of Satucket (Bridgewater) to Guido Bailey 1659, and went to Little Compton. He d. 1677, and his son John Irish m. a sister of the famous Capt. Church : another s. Elias, settled in Taunton. LORING. — Dea. Thomas Loring was early at Hingham ; had a grant of land there 1635 ; his house was burnt 1646, d. at Hull 1661, his heirs divided the estate 1672 : his w. Jane died 1672, leaving a will : his children were Thomas, John, Josiah, and Benjamin 1644 : no Ds. mentioned either in the division or her will. 2. Thomas (s. of the above) m. Hannah, D. of Nicholas Jacob, 1657 : she was b. 1639 : he lived in Hull, and had Thomas, Ca- leb, David, Hannah 1665, and Deborah 1669. He d. 1678, and his widow m. Stephen French : his heirs divided the estate 1702. Hannah m. Jeremiah Cushing 1685. — Thomas m. Deborah, D. of John Cushing Esq. 1699, and lived in Plymouth. — Deborah m. John Cushing Jr. 1687, and d. 1713. 3. John (s. of Dea. Thomas 1.) m. Mary, D. of Nath'l Baker, 1657, lived in Hull, had John 1658, Joseph 1660, Thomas 1662, Sarah 1664, Isaac 1666, Mary 1668, Nathaniel, and Daniel. He m. a 2d w. Rachel, and had Jacob, Israel April 15, 1682, Caleb, LORING. 381 and Sarah it his will 1708, proved 1714. Joseph and Isaac died before him, each leaving 4 children. — Mary m. a Jones and was his only surviving D. — He mentioned Israel "having been brought up to learning," who gra. H. U. 1701, and was ord. at Sudbury 1706, and d. 1772, ae. 90. — Nathaniel lived in Boston. 4. Josiah (s. of Dea. Thomas 1.) m. Elizabeth (perhaps D. of John Otis): his will 1712: had Jane 1663, Josiah 1665, Samuel 1668 d. 1774, Job 1670, Elizabeth 1672, Jonathan ex'or. 1674. Jane m. Samuel Gifford. 5. Benjamin (s. of Dea. Thomas 1.) m. Mary, D. of Matthew Hawke, 1670, lived in Hull probably, and had Mary, Matthew, Benjamin, John, and Samuel: the heirs divided his estate 1716. Mary m. James Gould. — Matthew m. Jane, D. of Lieut. Thos. Collier of Hull, and d. 1722 leaving no children. 6. John (s. of John 3): his w. Jane ; his will 1719, mentions his "children and his eldest son" but gives no names: John, supposed to be one, chose his uncle Caleb for bis guardian 1728. 7. Joseph (s. of John 3.) m. Hannah, D. of John Leavitt 1683, and had Joseph 1684, Nehemiah 1686, Joshua 1688, Submit Aug. 1691 after her father's death. The wid. in. Joseph Easta- brook 1693, and all the children were put under their guardian- ship. Hannah Dorr settled the estate of her former husband, Joshua Loring late of Boston, 1723, and his children, Abigail, Hannah, and Joshua, minors, were put under guardianship 1729. 8. Thomas (s. of John 3.) m. Leah, D. of Benjamin Buckley, 16S7 (Buckley was killed in the disastrous battle with the Indians near Rehoboth): his will 1737 : he had Benjamin, Leah 1688, and Sarah. Leah m. Elisha Cushing and afterwards Jabez Wilder, and her D. Elizabeth Cushing m. Col. Edward Mitchell of E. B. 1738.— Sarah m. Solomon Cushing 1716. 9. Daniel of Boston (s. of John 3.) m. a Mann, and had Daniel, Isaac, Nathaniel, and Priscilla, all under his guardianship 1715, that he might take care of the property that came to them from their grandmother Deborah Mann. 10. David (of Hull): his will 1751 : he had David, Solomon, Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail, and Lydia. 11. John (of Hull): his will 1753: he had James, Sarah White, Elizabeth Binney, and Hannah Loring. 12. Jacob (of Hull): his children, Jacob, Israel, and Zecha- riah, divide his estate 1753: his wid. Hannah: Jacob died 1769 without ch. 13. Caleb (of Hull): his children, Caleb, Mary, Joshua, Israel, Joseph, Susanna Watts, Sarah Lincoln, Rebecca Rooke, Rachel, and Celia, divide his estate 1758. 14. Solomon (his will 1765) and his w. Deborah: he had Solo- mon, Jabez, Job, Abner, Lydia, and Mary. 15. James (of Hull) died 1777: his wife Mary : he had John, Martha, James, Mary, and Joseph. 16. Israel (of Boston) d. 1778 : his wid. Mary : he had Israel, Thomas, Eunice, and Betsy. 3S2 LORING— MERRICK.— MORTON. 17. David (of Hull): his will 1781 : his vr. Hannah : he had Jonathan, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary White, Hannah Beals, Anna Sergeant, and Jane dishing, and gr. ch. David, Sarah, Mary, and Hannah. 18. Thomas (of Hingham): his will 1795 : his wid. Sarah D. of Dea. Joshua Hersey : her mother was Alice, wid. of Edward Mitchell of E. B. and D. of Major John Bradford of Kingston. [See p. 242, No. 4.] He had Jane, Jotham, Thomas, Asa, Ra- chel, and Christiana: his wid. d. 179S. Jane m. a Thaxter. — Col. Jotham lived in Duxbury. — Thomas was father of the pre- sent Thomas Loring Esq. Representative of Hingham. John Loring and Elizabeth his wife, Samuel Loring and Jane his wife, Caleb Loring Esq. and Rebecca his wife, Benjamin Loring and Elizabeth his wife, David Loring and Hannah his w. sold and conveyed Rainsford Island to William Foye Treasurer of the Commonwealth 173G : perhaps these were ss. of John 6, but it is not ascertained. The foregoing is but a sketch and brief notice of a few of the very numerous and respectable familes of this name, now widely extended over the country, and all probably descendants of Dea. Thomas. MERRICK. — William Merrick was an inhabitant of Duxbury before 1650, and one of the first proprietors of Bridgewater, and we have no further knowledge of him. Some of the name have resided on the Cape. MORTON.— George Morton arrived at Plymouth 1623 in the third ship, the Ann. He and Experience Mitchell in the first allotment of land in 1623 had eight acres together : his w. Sarah was supposed to be sister of Gov. Bradford : he d. 1624 : his ch. were Nathaniel, John, Patience, Ephraim, and Sarah. Patience m. John Faunce father of Thomas Faunce (the distinguished Elder of Plymouth Church, who d. 1745). — Sarah m. George Bonum or Bonham. 2. Nathaniel (son of George 1.) was the Secretary of the Colony, and the worthy author of New England's Memorial: he m. Lydia Cooper 1635, who d. 1673, and he then m. Ann Temp- lar : he had no son, but had 6 Ds. One, Remember, b. 1637, m. Abraham Jackson 1657 ; one m. a Dunham ; one, Joanna, m. Joseph Prince of Hull ; one, Elizabeth, m. Nathaniel Bozworth of Hull ; one, Lydia, m. George Ellison ; and another m. a Boz- worth : he d. June 28, 1685. 3. John (s. of George 1.) went to Middleboro'and was ances- tor of a numerous family. 4. Ephraim (s. of George 1.) was a Lieutenant and Deacon : he d. 1693, and left a wid. Mary Harlow : she afterwards m. Hugh Cole 1698: when last m. she was called wid. of Ephraim Morton Esq.: Morton's children were George, Ephraim, Nathaniel, Jo- siah, Eleazar, Thomas, Patience who m. John Nelson, and Rebecca who m. a Wood. 5. George (s. of Ephraim 4.) m. Joanna Kempton, and had MORTON.— NASH— PARTRIDGE— PAYBODY. 383 Hannah 1668, Manasseh 1669, Ephraim 1670, Joanna 1673, Ruth 1676, George 1678, and Timothy 1682. 6. Ephraim (s. of Ephraim 4.) had Ephraim, John, Joseph, Ebenezer, and one D. Ephraim Jr. was father of Ichabod. — John Morton m. Mary Faunce, and d. of "a grievous wound" 1709, and she then m. Joseph Hall of Yarmouth. Joseph was grandfather of Capt. Ezekiel. 7. Nathaniel (s. of Ephraim 4.) Avas a Lieutenant and d. 1709 : he had a s. Nathaniel whose s. Nathaniel b. 1752 and d. 1775- was father of Mrs. Rebecca relict of the late Hon. Win. Davis. 8. Josiah (s. of Ephraim 4.) d. 1694, and had Henry, Josiah, &c. Josiah m. E. Clark, and had Josiah who d. 1739 se. 86, and who was father of Thomas who d. 1S24 a?. 76. 9. Eleazar (s. of Ephraim 4.) had three children. 10. Thomas (s. of Ephraim 4.) had Nathaniel who was father of Lemuel. The preceding is but a sketch or outline of this numerous and respectable family, of whom the present Governor, Marcus Morton, is one, as was also the Hon. Perez Morton, late Attor- ney General of the Commonwealth. NASH. — Samuel Nash of Duxbury was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and one of the Commissioners ap- pointed by Court to purchase the new Plantation of the Indians. He was Sheriff or Chief Marshal of the Colony, a Lieutenant under Capt. Standish,and also Representative from Duxbury to the old Colony Court at Weymouth : one of his Ds. m. Abraham Sampson. We have no further knowledge of him or his family, and know not if he had any connection with James a cotempo- rary at Weymouth. He lived in his old age with his son-in-law Clarke. There are many of the name still living in Weymouth, Abington, and the vicinity. James Nash of Duxbury m. Sarah Simmons as early as 1660 or 1670, he may have been son of Samuel, and the same man who was at Weymouth, and Joseph, and others of Scituate may have been his descendants. PARTRIDGE.— George Partridge and the Rev. Ralph Par- tridge both of Duxbury were both original proprietors of Bridge- water. The latter was the first Minister of that place, and came over 1636, and George was there the same year: his D. Sarah m. Samuel Allen of Bridgewater about 1658, she was born 1639. Whether they were brothers or in any way connected we know not. The Rev. Mr. Partridge's share in Bridgewater was finally owned by Jonathan Hill of Bridgewater. The late Hon. George Partridge of Duxbury, High Sheriff of Plymouth County, &c, was a descendant of the first George. There are not many of the name now in the County. — Mary Partridge m. Jonathan Brewster, and was living in Conn. 1733. PAYBODY or PEABODY— John and William Paybody were both early settlers in Duxbury, and both original proprie- tors of Bridgewater, and were probably brothers. Of John we have met with no notices. William was Representative of 384 PIERCE— PRINCE. Duxbury, and m. Elizabeth, D. of John Alden, 1644, she was b. in Plymouth 1624: he sold his place in Duxbury to Experience Mitchell 1650, and removed to Little Compton, R. I.: she died there 1717, se. 92, and at her death it was said " her grand D. Bradford was a grandmother." Her D. Priscilla m. Rev. Mr. Ichabod Wiswall, and Priscilla Wisvvall m. Gershom Bradford. — Hannah Peabody m. Samuel Bartlett. PIERCE. — Abraham Pierce, one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, was in Plymouth as early as 1627, being named with others in the division of the cattle, which was made that year ; but was afterwards before 1650 an inhabitant of Duxbury, and we have met with no further notice of him. PRINCE. — Rev. John Prince, rector of East Stafford in Berkshire, Eng., was 2 or 3 years at the University in Oxford. His son John came to New England, and settled at Hull, and had several children : his 4th s., Samuel, was born in Boston 1649. — Joseph Prince of Hull m. Joanna, D. of the Secretary Nathaniel Morton of Plymouth. 2. Thomas (s. of John and brother of Samuel) d. in Boston about 1704, and had Thomas, Benjamin, and Job; and the wid. m. Israel Sylvester of Duxbury. — Thomas Prince of Duxbury, Shipwright, bought a farm of Samuel Sprague sen'r 1713. 3. Samuel (s. of John) settled in Sandwich about 1686, made free 1690, was twice m.: his last w. Mercy, D. of Gov. Hinckley : he died 1728, re. 80 ; she 1736 : he had Samuel, John, Thomas 1687, Joseph, Moses, Nathan, Alice, Martha, Mercy, and Mary. Samuel had farms at Milford and Coventry, and d. at Rochester 1722, before his father. — John also died at Rochester, and his D. Elizabeth m. Seth Ames of Bridgewater 1734, who d. at Provi- dence or at sea about 1738. — Thomas (s. of the last w.) gra. H. U. 1707, and settled in the ministry at the Old South, Boston, was author of annals and the chronology, and d. Oct. 22, 1758, ?e. 72. — Joseph was a mariner at Strafford, Conn. 1738, but was afterwards probably at Rochester. — Moses was a mariner at Boston 1738, and father of Samuel, Jane, and others perhaps. — Nathan born 1698, gra. H. U. 1718, fellow of the College many years, died at the West Indies 1748. — Alice m. Samuel Gray of Little Compton, he died 1733, she was living 1736. — Martha ra. Ezra Bourne Esq. of Sandwich, and her D. Mary Bourne was wife of the Rev. John Angier, first Minister of East Bridge- water. — Mercy, feeble and infirm, was living single in 1733. — Mary m. the Rev. Peter Thacher of Mid'o. 4. Governor Thomas Prince (of no known connection with the preceding families) came over in the 2d ship, the Fortune, in 1621, lived in Plymouth, his house in High street near Spring Lane : m. Patience, D. of William Brewster, 1624, the 9th marriage in the Colony : she d. 1634 : he was chosen Governor 1635, then living at Duxbury : m. Mary, D. of Wm. Collier, 1635, and removed to Eastham 1644, and there resided till rechosen Governor in 1658. His wife died at Eastham, and he returned to Plymouth PRINCE.— SAMPSON. 385 1063, and lived at "Plain Dealing"; m. Mrs. Mary, widow of Samuel Freeman, 1662, and d. 1673, ae. 73, his wife surviving at Yarmouth 1676 : he had a son Thomas who d. before him, and 8 Ds. viz: Rebecca w. of Edmund Freeman Jr. m. 1646, Han- nah w. of Nathaniel Mayo m. 1649, Mercy w. of John Freeman of Eastham m. 1649, Jane w. of Mark Snow of Eastham m. 1660, Mary w. of John Tracy of Duxbury, Elizabeth w. of Arthur How- land Jr. of Marshfield, Sarah w. of Thos. or Jere'h Howes Jr. of Yarmouth m. 1650, Judith w. of Isaac Barker of Marshfield and then of William Tubbs of Pembroke in. 1691 : he had 2 grand children who d. before 1690 without issue, viz : Lusanna, D. of his son Thomas, and Theophilus Mayo: he had also a maiden sister Susanna living at St. Catharine's Gate, near London Tower : he called Thomas Clark his brother. SAMPSON. — Abraham and Henry Sampson of Duxbury were original proprietors of Bridgcwater. Abraham was in Duxbury as early as 1640, and m. a D. of Sam*l Nash, and had afterwards a 2d wife : he had Abraham, Isaac, Samuel, and others perhaps: he was living 1GSG. Abraham, the s. probably, m. Lorah, D. of Alexander Standish, and had Abraham, Miles, Ebenezer, Re- becca, Sarah, and Grace. — Samuel was killed in Pbilip's war 1675 or 1678, leaving a wid. Esther and several young children, among whom were Samuel and Ichabod. 2. Henry Sampson came over to Plymouth 1620 : is named in the allotments of land in 1623 as one of those who came in the May Flower in 1620, and yet his name is not inserted among those who came in the May Flower, nor is it to be found among those who signed the Compact on board before landing: he was probably young and included in some of the families : this is the more probable as he was not made a freeman till 1635, and not married till 1640 when he m. Ann Plummer : he settled in Dux- bury : what his connection with Abraham was is not ascertained : they may have been brothers. Henry d. 1685 : he had Stephen, John, James, Caleb, Eliza w. of Robert Sproat, Hannah w. of Josiah Holmes, another D. w. of John Hammond, Mary w. of John Simmons, and Dorcas wife of Thomas Bonney. Stephen and his wife Elizabeth had Benjamin, John, Cornelius, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Dorcas, and Abigail : he d. 1714. — James set- tled in Dartmouth. — Caleb m. Mercy, D. of Alexander Standish. 3. Isaac (whose s. uncertain, perhaps s. of Abraham) b. 1660 and d. 1726 ; m. Lydia, D. of Alexander Standish, and bad Isaac 1688, Jonathan 1690, Josiah 1692 d. 1731, Lydia 1694, Ephraim 1698, Peleg 1700, Priscilla 1702, Barnabas 1705. Isaac Jr. had a w. Sarah. — Jonathan had a w. Joanna — Ephraim had a w. Abi- gail.— Priscilla m. Jabez Fuller. — Barnabas had a w. Experience. 4. Peleg (s. of Isaac 3.) m. Mary Ring born 1700, and had Mercy 1731, and Simeon 1736. 5. Simeon (s. of Peleg 4.) m. Deborah, D. of Seth dishing, 1759, and had Lydia Gushing 1762, Deborah, Mercy, George W., and Maria : lie d. 1789 ; she 1830, a?. 90. Lydia C. m. Wm. 49 386 SIMMONS.— SOULE. Goodwin 17S1 and d. 1815. — Deborah m. Rev. Ephraim Briggs and afterwards William Goodwin for liis 2d w. — Mercy m. Levi Bradford 1800. — Maria m. Rev. Daniel Johnson of Yarmouth. There was a Gideon Sampson who m. Abigail, D. of Maj. John Bradford, soon after 1700 : she left no children. There was a George Sampson who went to Plympton about 16S0, and his grand daughter Deborah m. Elijah Bisbee Jr. i rid d. 181 G, ee. 93, and was mother of Elijah Bisbee Esq. and George Bisbee. SIMMONS. — Moses Simmons (sometimes written Symons and Symonson) of Duxbury was an original proprietor of Bridge- water, and sold his right to Nicholas Byram : he came over in the ship Fortune 1621 : he had Moses and Thomas, and proba- bly other children. Moses Jr. died in Duxbury 1689, and had John, Aaron, Mary w. of Joseph Alden, Elizabeth w. of Richard Dwelly, and Sarah w. of James Nash. — Thomas lived in Scit., and had Moses and Aaron, and perhaps others. — Moses and his w. Patience had Moses 1666 d. in Canada expedition 1690, John 1667, Sarah 1670, Aaron 1672, Job 1674, Patience 1676 after her^ father's death. Aaron m. Mary Woodworth 1677, and had Rebecca 1679, Moses 1680, Mary 1683, Elizabeth 1686, Ebene- zer 1689, Lydia 1693; Moses m. Rachel Cudworth 1711, and had Moses 1718, Aaron 1720, Rachel 1723, Leah 1725; Ebene- zer m. Lydia Kent 1714, and had Abigail 1715, Joshua 1717, Lydia 1719, Reuben, Peleg, and Ebenezer; Joshua m. Eliza- beth Dillingham, and had a son Elisha, father of William, C. J. of the Police Court, Elisha, Benja., and Franklin all of Boston, and Ebenezer of Hanover. One of the Ds. of this family m. Wil- liam Barrell, and she died before 1750 leaving an only child, Joshua Barrell. — There was a Moses Simmons lived awhile in S. B. [see page 330, No. 69.], a descendant no doubt of this family. Joseph Church had a D. Abigail, who m. a Simmons as early as, and probably before, 1700. SOULE. — George Soule was one of the first pilgrims and signers of the political Compact on board the May Flower 1620: in the general allotment in 1623 he had one acre and afterwards two more " at the watering place," all of which he sold to Robert Hicks 1639; in 1627 he and his w. Mary and s. Zechariah are named : he lived at Eel River, N. side the bridge, in 1638, and then at Powder Point, and removed to Duxbury hefore 1650 ; was a Selectman and Deputy there, and one of the original pro- prietors of Bridgewater : he sold his proprietary right to Nicho- las Byram : she d. 1677 ; he 1680 very aged : he had Zechariah, John, Nathaniel, George, Patience w. of John Haskell, Eliza- beth w. of Francis Walker, both of Mid'o., Susanna, and Mary wife of John Peterson probably of Duxbury, m. before 1672; Mary had been put out to John Winslow 1652 for 7yrs.; he gave one-half his Dartmouth lands to Nathaniel 1658, the other half to George 1668, his Mid'o. lands to Haskell and Walker and their wives 166S: Zechariah d. before him, 1663, leaving a wid» TUBBS.— WADS WORTH.— WEST.— WESTON. 387 Margaret ; John Soule d. at Duxbury 1707 a). 75 ; Eclm'd Weston , and Adam Wright were his ss. in law, John Soule d. at Duxbury 1734 ; Aaron Soule, merchant, d. at Pembroke 1783, who had one s. John and 5 Ds.; one, Leonice, m. a Brewster ; one, Huldah m. Thomas Church ; one m. a Dwelly. The descendants of this respectable ancestor are very numerous in the old Colony, and have spread extensively over the country. Dea. John Soule and others in E. B. [see p. 304] are doubtless his descendants. TUBBS. — William Tubbs, of Duxbury, was an original pro- prietor of Bridgewater : he m. Mercy, D. of Francis Sprague, 1637, and he or his s. or gr. s. William m. Judith, wid. of Isaac Barker and D. of Gov. Thomas Prince, 1G91. Some of this name, no doubt his descendants, are still living in the lower towns of tbe County, but we have no particular knowledge of the family descent. WADSWORTH.— Christopher Wadsworth of Duxbury was a Representative of that town, and one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and Capt. Samuel and Joseph Wadsworth and their representatives retained an interest and shares in Bridge- water longer than any of the non-residents. After 1685 Capt. Samuel's share is entered under the name of wid. Wadsworth ; and in 1686, and after, Timothy Wadsworth's name appears. — This has always been a respectable name in Duxbury and its vicinity. The late Gen. Peleg Wadsworth of Portland gra. H. U. 1769, was of this family. WEST.— Francis West at Duxbury 1633; m. Margary Reeves 1639 : an orig. proprietor of Bridgewater, sold his share to Edw'd Mitchell, d. 1692 : had Samuel, Peter, Pelatiah, Richard, &c. Samuel m. Tryphosa, D. of George Partridge, and had Samuel : some of his descendants in Martha's Vineyard : Pelatiah went to Conn. Samuel West m. Experience Howland. — The name is common in the old Colony. WESTON. — Edmund Weston of Duxbury was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, and the name is still common tbere and in the vicinity ; but if he is the common ancestor, as proba- bly he is, we have no means at hand of tracing the descent. WINSLOW.— Edward, Gilbert, John, Kenelm, and Josiah Winslow, were brothers and children of Edward Winslow of Droitwich in Worcestershire in England, and all came to New England : they had also 3 sisters, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and May- delon. 1. Gov. Edward Winslow, b. 1594, came Avith his w. Elizabeth in 1620 in the 1st ship, the May Flower: she d. the next spring, 1621, and he m. Susanna, wid. of Mr. William White, 1622, the first marriage in N. E., and she was mother of Peregrine White, the first child, and of Josiah Winslow the first Governor, born in N. E. He went as Agent to England and d. at sea 1655 ae. 61 : his residence or seat called Caresrull, was at Marshfield : he had Edward*, John*, Josiah, and Elizabeth who m. Gilbert Brooks and afterwards Capt. George Corwin of Salem. 3S8 WINSLOW. 2. Gilbert arrived also in the first ship 1620. Few notices of him remain : he soon left the Colon)', and, it is said, went to Portsmouth, and d. before 1660, without issue, as grants of that date were made to his brothers as his heirs. 3. John, born a. 1590, arrived 1621 in the ship called the For- tune, and m. Mary Chilton before 1027 (she was said to liave been the first lady who came on shore : she was an only child of James and Susanna Chilton, who both died the first winter): he had John, Isaac, Benjamin 1653, Edward, Joseph, Susanna, Mary, and Sarah. Susanna m. Robert Latham a. 1649, who settled in E. Bridgewater. [See page 222.] — Mary m. Edward Gray 1650.— Sarah m. Miles Standish Jr. 1660, then Tobias Payne 1666, and afterwards Richard Middlecot. He and all his family but the two eldest Ds. finally removed to Boston, where he d. a. 1674, a?. 7S; she died a. 1676. Their posterity became numerous, of whom the present Isaac Winslow Esq. is one, as was also the late Gen. John Winslow, both of Boston. 4. Kenelm arrived at Plymouth a. 1629, and m. Eleanor, wid. of John Adams, 1634, and settled in Marshfield : he d. while on a visit at Salem 1672: he had Kenelm, Nathaniel, and Job. Kenelm went to Yarmouth, and had Kenelm 1668, Josiah 1670, and Thomas 1672. — Job went to Freetown. — Kenelm Winslow, a grandson perhaps, m. Ann Taylor 1730. 5. Josiah, b. 1605, arrived with his brother Kenelm a. 1629, was in Scituate in 1637, and soon after 1643 settled in Marsh- field, and m. Margaret, D. of Thomas Bourne, and d. 1674, a?. 69 : he had Elizabeth 1637, Jonathan 1638, Mary 1640, Rebecca 1642, Hannah (or Susanna) 1644, and Margaret. Jonathan d. 1676, leaving a son John born 1664. — One D. m. John Miller. — One, Rebecca, m. John Thacher, both of Yarmouth. — One m. William Crow of Plymouth, and another in. John Tracy of Duxhury, afterwards of Norwich. 6. Gov. Josiah (only surviving s. of Gov. Edw'd 1.) b. a. 162S, educated at H. U. 1653, but left without taking a degree, as did many others, on account of the new regulation requiring students to stay 4 years instead of 3 : he m. Penelope, D. of Herbert Pel- ham, 1657 : he d. 1680, se. a. 52 ; she d. 1703, se. 73 : they had a D. 1658*, Elizabeth 1664, Edward 1667*, Isaac 1670. Elizabeth m. Stephen Burton J 684. 7. Nathaniel (s. of Kenelm 4.) resided in Marshfield, and m. Faith Miller 1664, and had Faith 1665, Nathaniel 1667, James 1669, Eleanor, Gilbert 1673, Kenelm 1675, Josiah 1683. Kenelm had a son Nathaniel 1709. 8. Col. Isaac (only surviving son of Gov. Josiah 6.) of Marsh- field m. Sarah, D. of John Wensley of Boston, 1700: he d. 1738, 3B. 68; she 1753, oe. 80 (her mother was Elizabeth, D. of Dea. William Paddy whose w. was Alice D. of Edmund Freeman of Sandwich, m. 1639): he had Josiah 1701, John 1703, Penelope 1704, Elizabeth 1707, Anna 17C9*, Edward 1714. Josiah gra. H. U. 1721, was a Captain, and slain at St. George's River by WINSLOW. 389 the Indians 1724. — Penelope m. Col. James Warren 1725, and died 1737. — Elizabeth m. Col. Benjamin Marston of Salem or Manchester 1729, and died 1760. — The Wensley Portrait among those of the Winslow family in the Mass. Hist. Society's rooms is either Sarah Wensley 's (w. of Col. Winslow) or her mother Elizabeth's (D. of Dea. Paddy), and most probably of the latter, as it is understood the family in later times have usually spoken of it " as grandmother Paddy's." 9. Nathaniel (s. of Nathaniel 7.) resided in Marshfield, and m. Lydia, D. of Anthony Snow, 1C92, and had Lydia 1693, Thankful 1695, Snow 169S, Oliver 1702, Deborah 1708, Patience 1710, Nathaniel 1712 : he then m. a 2d wife, Deborah Bryant of Scituate, 1716, and had Ruth 171S. 10. Gilbert (s. of Nathaniel 7.) of Marshfield m. Mary, D. of Anthony Snow, and had Issachar 1699, Barnabas, Gilbert, and Anthony 1707. Anthony m. Deborah, D. of William Barker Esq., aud removed to E. Bridgewater. [See page 353.] 11. Gen. John (s. of Col. Isaac 8.] lived in Marshfield, and m. Mary Little 1726, and had Pelham 1737, and Isaac 1739 : he afterwards, late in life, m. a wid. Johnson (whose maiden name was Barker) of Hingham, where he died 1774, ae. 71.. He was Captain in the expedition against Cuba 1640, Col. at Louisburgh 1644, and afterwards Maj. Gen'l in the British service. 12. Edward Esq. (youngest son of Col. Isaac 8.) gra. H. U. 1736, m. Hannah, wid. of Charles Dyer and D. of Thos. How- land, 1739, and went to Halifax, N. S., in the revolution, and d. 1786, 33. 72; she survived and d. at Frederickton 33. 82: he had Edward, Penelope, and Sarah. Edward gra. H. U. 1765, was Clerk of the Courts in Plymouth, and went off in the revolution and died at Frederickton 1815, 33. 69, and his son Edward was drowned, and another s., Wentworth, survived. 13. Oliver (s. of Nathaniel 9.) m. Agatha, D. of John Bryant of Scituate, where he also resided, and had Oliver (killed in the French war 1758, as. 20), John who went to Nobleborough, Me., and Nathaniel. He m. a 2d w. Bethiah Pryor of Hanover 1749, and had Oliver (a revolutionary pensioner) and Joseph* 1753. Oliver had a s. Oliver. 14. Pelham Esq. (s. of Gen. John 11.) gra. H. U. 1753, was an Attorney, and m. Joanna, D. of Capt. Gideon White : he left Plymouth in the revolution, and d. on Long Island, N. Y. 17S2, leaving two Ds., Mary who m. Maj. Henry Warren, and Joanna who m. Dr. Nathan Hayward, High Sheriff of Plymouth Co. 15. Dr. Isaac (s. of Gen. John 11.) of Marshfield was a re- spectable Physician, and m. a D. of Dr. Charles Stockbridge of Scituate, and d. 1819, ae. 80; the w. of his old age was Fanny Gay of Hingham : he had a s. John and 3 Ds. One, Betsy, m. Hon. Kilborn Whitman Esq., one m. a Shaw and then a Dingley, and the other m. a Clapp, an Attorney in Bath, Me. 16. Maj. Nathaniel (s. of Oliver 13.) m. Sarah, D. of Isaac Hatch of Pembroke, 1766, and had Nathaniel 1767, Sarah 1769, 390 WINSLOW. Walter 1772*, Josiah 1774*, Anna 1776, Judith 1780, Lydia 17SG, William 1788. Nathaniel died 1830, leaving- a family.— Sarah m. Thomas Waterman, and then Ehenezcr Copeland. — Anna m. Wm. P. Ripley of Plymouth 1810. — Judith m. Elisha Tolman. — Lydia m. Anthony Collamore of Pembroke. — AVilliam remained at Scituate on the paternal estate. 17. John Esq. (s. of Dr. Isaac 15.) gra. B. U. 1795, was an Attorney, and d. at Natchez, whither he went on business 1822, se. 48, leaving John, Pelham, Isaac, Penelope, Eliza, and Fanny Gay. Samuel Winslow of Rochester had Samuel and Richard bap. 1679. — Samuel m. Bathsheba Holbrook of Scituate 1700. — Na- thaniel (of Freetown) m. Elizabeth Holbrook of Scituate 1701. Josiah of Freetown m. Sarah, D. of John Hayward Jr. of W. Bridgewater, 1721. [See p. 352.] — Oliver, a revolutionary pen- sioner of Westport, served in the artillery 1777. — Nathaniel Winslow removed to Damarascotta 1729, and testified in Court at old York 1742, then 63 years old. Isaac Winslow of Boston has a particular geneological account of the Boston branch of this distinguished family. APPENDIX. See page 17. — The following extracts from the Records of the General Court, shows that the grant of Titicut was not made till after the grant of Bridgewater plantation was made to Duxbury, and of course was made by the Sachem at Pembroke or Matta- keset, and not by his father Chickatabut of Neponsit : — " Isaac Wonno appeared to prosecute his claim to three miles of land on each side of Titicut river. Bridgewater agents made it appear that they had purchased of Ossemequin six miles from their centre towards Titicut, and that Chickatabut in his grant to Titicut Indians of three miles doth except any former pur- chase made by Bridgewater men. We therefore think it neces- sary that Titicut Indians and the said Wonno have their three miles after the Bridgewater men's three miles be meted out, or to have the remainder if it be not so much." The foregoing report of the Committee, 1703, was accepted and approved by the General Court on the petition of Edward Fobes, Representative of Bridgewater, Oct. 27, 1708. See page 19. — The following is the report of a Committee establishing the bounds of the Titicut Purchase : — " 1729. We the subscribers being a Committee chosen by the Purchasers and Proprietors of the two mile grant on the southerly side of Bridgewater, commonly called Titicut, to establish the bounds of the Divisions of said Titicut lands where they might be found, and to make new bounds where they were wanting as by record may appear, which work we have carefully performed : and we have established the bounds of the northermost parts of said Titicut lands upon the ancient reputed four mile line, as by the return of our work may appear, which line was shown to us 392 APPENDIX. by the Proprietors of Titicut : and we being also a Committee chosen hy the Purchasers and Proprietors of the eight mile square of Bridgewater as hy record may appear to renew the ancient line between said eight mile and Titicut lands, upon which said Titicut lots were butted when first laid out, in order to bring it to record : because the Purchasers' ancient book of records before it came into our present Clerk's hands was in divers places defaced, broken and lost, so that the record of said line cannot be found. Accordingly we did upon the 4th day of Feb- ruary, 1728-9, renew said ancient four mile line as followeth. We took our departure from a heap of stones at a place called Wolf Trap Hill where Titicut way parts from Taunton road, which heap of stones was shewn us by Justice Edson and Dea. Fobes, being Proprietors on both sides, and avouched to be a station in the ancient four mile line, or line between said eight mile and two mile and known by them to be so for more than forty years past, it being the same line upon which we butted the said Titi- cut lands as above. From said heap of stones we run West one degree, South forty-one rods to a great crotched white oak tree marked and numbered 4 : thence West one degree South 100 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 : thence West one degree South 53 rods to a white oak sapling marked and num- bered 4, near the little pond : thence West one degree South one hundred and fifteen rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 at the head of Leach's land : thence West one degree South 53 rods to a horn pine tree marked and numbered 4, an ancient marked tree : thence West one degree South 50 rods to a white pine stake standing by a black oak stump stand- ing in Taunton Line marked and numbered 4. Then we began again at the heap of stones first mentioned and run East one degree North 85 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree North 73 rods to a white oak tree stand- ing by the brook in the range of Samuel Leach's land marked and numbered 4 about a rod below a great rock in the brook ; thence East one degree North 83 rods to a rock between a white oak and walnut : thence East one degree North to a swamp white oak tree marked and numbered 4 by Thomas Hayward's land : thence East one degree North 121 rods to a white oak tree northward from Benja. Washburn's house marked and numbered APPENDIX. 393 4: thence East one degree North thrity-six rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree North 80 rods to a white oak tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree North 50 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 on the South side, being an ancient marked tree : thence East one degree North 120 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree South 31 rods to a horn pine .tree marked and numbered 4, being the corner of the first great Lot in Titicut Division : thence East one degree North 47 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree North 06 rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree North 70 rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 standing in the edge of Benjamin Willis's meadow, being an old marked tree : thence East one degree North 47 rods to a poplar sapling marked and numbered 4, being the cor- ner of the first Lot in the last Division of Titicut lands : thence East one'degree North 550 rods by a range of old marked trees to a walnut tree marked and numbered 4 standing on the bank of the great river and a little to the North of the mouth of Win- netuxet river. — Ephraim Fobes,Benj. Leach, and Nath'l Willis." 1737. The above was confirmed 1737 by Sam'l Keith, Jona. Howard and Joshua Willis in behalf of the Eight Mile Proprie- tors ; and Nathaniel Willis, Benjamin Leach and Ephraim Fobes in behalf of the Two Mile Proprietors. See page 30. — The following record contains the final laying out of the land on the North and East side of the original four mile grant, on the notherly and easterly part of the town, accord- ing to the agreement of the purchasers. " Pursuant to an Act of the Purchasers of Bridgewater bear- ing date Feb. 1, A. D., 1710, we the subscribers, who were entrusted and empowered to lay out the undivided lands towards the north-east corner of the Four Mile Grant both upon the East and North side, have bounded out the said lands into seven shares or lots according to the purchasers' agreement in manner and form as followeth : — " Part of the first lot lyeth westerly from Joseph Shaw's house, beginning at a red oak tree marked on four sides, numbered one : from thence running West to Packard's land, and bounded west- erly partly by Packard's land and partly by John Hayward's 50 394 APPENDIX. land, and at the southerly end by the lots that lie upon Matfield River to a white oak tree, which is Joseph Edson's corner bound : from thence running North two hundred rods to the red oak first mentioned, being 100 acres more or less. — The other part of the first lot licth on the East side of Buck Hill swamp, beginning at a white oak tree near the swamp, numbered one : from thence running East to Joseph Shaw's land by Beaver Brook, and then bounded on the south-east and East by said Shaw's land, and by the lands of Nicholas Byram, and so to the white oak tree stand- ing in the East and West line, which is the southerly bounds of the second lot : from said white oak running West by a range of trees marked to the above said Buck Hill swamp, and so bounded by James Cary's land in Buck Hill swamp to the bounds first mentioned. " The second lot lieth easterly from Beaver Brook, beginning at a heap of stones upon a flat rock, then running northerly to the four mile line, which is a mile : and from said rock easterly 160 poles to a white oak tree marked on four sides, and then running northerly to the four mile line. " The third lot beginneth at the white oak last mentioned and runs East 179 poles to a swamp oak, which is marked on four sides: from thence running North 320 poles to the four mile line. " The fourth lot is bounded westerly by the East side of the third lot, and runs from the above named oak East 160 poles to a stake and heap of stones : thence North to the four mile line. " The fifth lot lieth on the East side of Weymouth road, bound- ed northerly by a pine tree marked on two sides standing near to William Dyer's land : from thence to a black oak tree by the road near Lieut. Hersey's field : then bounded by said road to a stake and heap of stones by the way-side : from thence running East to Mr. Moore's land : thence bounded by the river lots to the pine tree first mentioned. " The sixth lot is bounded northerly by the fifth, beginning at the above stake and heap of stones, and from thence bounded by the way to the Birch swamp to a maple tree, which is the corner bounds of Gannett's land to a white oak tree standing to the northward of the old wolf trap : thence running East to poor meadow lots, and so bounded by lotted lands until it comes to the range of the fifth lot. APPENDIX. 395 " Part of the seventh lot is bounded by the south side of tlie sixth : the other part of the lot lieth between Theodosius Moore's land and the Major's Purchase, bounded northerly by Mr. Cush- ing's land and southerly by the Cedar swamp." See page 34. — The lands on the North side of Titicut River within the township of Bridgewater lying on the South side of the Purchasers' four mile line from the centre, called the Titicut land, is laid out in two divisions of lots, called the great lots and the little lots; there being 64 lots in each division. " The great lots begin towards the easterly side and run from the four mile line southerly. The little lots begin on the westerly side of the path left to go down to Titicut wear, and run West for their length, butting on said path, till they come to the river at said wear ; then they begin on the easterly side of the way, and run easterly for their length, butting on the easterly side of the way, till they come to the 63d lot, which buts on a brook, the lot running on both sides of the way. The last lot, James Cary's, No. 64, lies by itself down the river against Spa?iyard's land." Laid out by Edward Mitchell, Sam'l Edson Jr., Sam'l Washburn and John Leonard, May 1685. See page 43. — Bridgewater's Monitor is the title given to the Rev. Mr. Keith's Sermon, June 14th, 1717, at the dedication of the first meeting-house in the south parish. The following is the preface : — " The New English Bridgewater has been a town favored of God ; yea some favors of Heaven unto it, have indeed been distinguishing. " It was planted a noble vine. — And may no more of the text from whence this phrase is borrowed, ever be applied unto it! The first planters of it, were a set of people who made religion their main interest ; and it became their glory. There was a time when it stood in a land of unwalled villages, with fierce armies of bloody Indians destroying round about them ; and the dispensations of God our Saviour towards it at this time, were so wonderful, that the short report thereof given, in the Church History of New England, is not unworthy to be here transcribed and repeated. " 'Remarkable was the fate of Bridgewater, a most praying, and a most pious town, seated in the very midst of the dangers 39C Al'FENDIX. of the war ; that although they were often assaulted by formida- ble numbers of the enemies, yet in all their sharp assaults they never lost one of their inhabitants, young or old. They were solicited strongly to desert their dwellings, but they resolved, that they would keep their stations. And now on May 8tb, 1676, the Indians began to fire the town ; but the inhabitants with notable courage, issued forth from their garrisons, to fight the enemy ; and God from Heaven at the same time fought for them, with a storm of lightning, thunder and rain, whereby a considerable part of their houses were preserved. Thou, Church of Bridgewater 1 ' O nimium dilecta Deo, cui militat aether.' O how beloved of Heaven, whom storms defend. " One that was no Christian, so sang the favors of Heaven to the Emperor Theodosius, and so might the Pagan foe now sing of thy salvations ! "Ever since that memorable day, the town has been proceed- ing, with the smile of God upon them, and upon the intentions of his gospel among them, until they are now become two bands. They are lovingly and peaceably swarmed into a new assembly, and began to meet in their new edifice on a day of prayer (as it is the manner of New England) when the two sermons were preached, which the affected hearers have here published. God grant, that from the tokens of his gracious presence Avith them, the place may claim the name of Mahanaim. And may there be still found among them such a number of lively, watchful, fruit- ful Christians, exemplarily living to God, and by the faith of the Son of God ; may a value for the ordinances of our Saviour, be so preserved in vigor with them, and the success thereof appear in all real and vital godliness quickened among the young as well as the old among them ; and may their brotherly love continue at such a rate, that it may be plainly seen, God is yet among them. Wo to them, if I depart from them, saith the Lord. " It has been a singular felicity unto this good people, that from the very infancy of their plantation, they have sat under the ministry of that gracious, faithful, humble servant of God, who continues with them to this day. He has been a precious gift of our ascended Lord unto them ; and they have hitherto rejoiced in his light ; and we rejoice with them, that after fifty- four years, his light yet shines with such brightness among them. APPENDIX. 397 " We can make no doubt, but that, as they have grown into such good circumstances under his painful and patient conduct, they will study in all tbe methods of goodness, to render bis old age comfortable to him, and so multiply all the offices and ex- pressions of a grateful people towards him, with an affection and reverence, like what the church of Smyrna paid unto their aged polycarp, that he may anon die, blessing of them, and blessing of God for them. They will certainly find their account in do- ing so ! " The savoury sermon, which is here extorted for the public from him, we recommend unto the blessing of God, that so the ends of piety, which the good people have proposed in thus ex- hibiting a lasting memorial of what God has done for them, and a constant remembrancer of their duty, may be answered. INCREASE MATHER, COTTON MATHER. A second edition of it was published and another preface added June 14, 1768, just fifty-one years after, and the Rev. John Angier's sermon, at the ordination of his son, the Rev. Samuel Angier, Dec. 23, 17C7, which was the occasion of print- ing the 2d edition, was bound with some of the copies. See page 47. — When the South Parish was incorporated in 1716 it was ordered by the General Court, as we have before seen, that the old meeting-house in the West Parish (then called the North Parish) should stand where it was for five years, and then be removed down to the four corners by Isaac Johnson's, in order no doubt to accommodate the easterly part (now East Bridg'r). Before the five years expired however a petition, signed by John Packard and others, was preferred to the General Court, praying that the old house might remain where it was, which was heard by the Court Nov. 9, 1720, and the prayer granted. This was assented to by the East in consideration of a sugges- tion made by the West, that the East would soon probably be desirous of becoming a separate Parish, and in that case the present house if removed would accommodate neither Parish ; and of a consequent agreement made in parish meeting Nov. 6, 1719, that if the East would contribute towards settling a minis- ter (Mr. Perkins) in the West, whatever they paid (about .£65) should be refunded when the East should become a Parish, and 308 Appendix. thus be called on to build a house and settle a minister for them- selves. When therefore that period occured the East called on the West to refund, but were denied, and no record of any such vote or agreement could be produced. The East then, by Josiah Seai-s and sixty-three others, applied to the General Court in June, 172G, for some remedy or relief; whereon an order of notice passed, and Nathaniel Brett, Clerk of the old Parish, was summoned to attend, who appeared, and on examination testified that such a vote was, passed, which he produced on a loose paper made at the time of passing it, and which he confessed " he ought in discharge of his office to have made a record of at that time." This the Court considered sufficient, but referred the petitioners to the judicial courts for a remedy. An action was accordingly commenced at the next September Term of the C. C. Pleas at Plymouth, in which John Read appeared for plaintiffs, and J. Overing for defendants. The East finally recovered, but not till they had expended nearly the whole amount in prosecuting their claim. July 1, 1730. Jona. Howard, Joseph Keith, Israel Packard, and Ephraim Fobes, a Committee of the West Parish, applied to the General Court, shewing that their meeting-house was much decayed and that it had been voted to build a new one, and that the inhabitants were much divided about the place where it should be erected, and praying therefore for a viewing Committee to determine where it should stand : whereupon Seth Williams Esq., Mr. Thacher and Mr. Lemon were appointed, and reported Dec. 21, 1730, that " having viewed all the places shewn to them by the contending parties they are of opinion that where the old house stands is the proper place," winch was accepted. See pages 54, 55. — To the List of Graduates there should be added Jairus S. Keith of S. B. or Titicut, gra. B. U. 1810, and Lewis Washburn of S. B. gra. B. U. 1S26 ; also Thomas J. Snow of N. B. gra. B. U. 1823, Abel W. Kingman of N. B. gra. Amherst 1830, Austin 'Cary of N. B. gra. Amherst 1837, Samuel Dike of N. B. gra. B. U. 1838. See page 71. — The following is the petition referred to in p. 71 : " To the honored Governor (Thomas Hinckley), and Deputy Governor and Assistants sitting at Plymouth in New England the first Tuesday in June 1685. " God by his providence hath placed the bounds of our APPENDIX. 399 habitation in Bridgewater, and on the eastward side of the town, and about two miles some of us, and some three miles from the meeting-house and mill and chief parts of the town ; and though we have lived there many years, some of us have had no way into the town, but what we have had upon sufferance through men's lands that have been laid out and of our own making of bridges to pass over a river that lies between some of us and the town. We have made and kept up a horse bridge over this river, called Matfield river, many years, which has been a great benefit to us that live there, and to many others, and strangers that have occasion to pass that way, especially in times of great floods, it being the best place and most convenient for a bridge in a mile up and down the river, which runs about South and North for the length of it, but the lands being laid out on both sides of it and butting upon this river, our bridge lying over this river on the northerly side of a twenty acre lot, the owner of the land has fenced it in ; and now we have no way to go to the town without going three-quarters of a mile about, and partly upon sufferance too many of us ; we think it is very hard that living in a wilderness, we cannot have convenient room for highways. We have made our case known to the town and can have no help. This lot where our bridge lies is the chief hindrance, and yet there is common land joining to the lower side of it left as we understand by the feoffees for allowance for a highway, but of itself it is altogether incapable of a way. There are many others in the town that desire there might be a sworn jury to lay out such highways as are needful, and to perfect such as are begun. So desiring your help as God shall direct you. Your humble petitioners." [See the names, page 71.] The preceding history was principally compiled before Bridge- water was divided, and therefore applies to it as if entire and as it formerjy stood after the separation of those parts which were incorporated with Abington, and Pembroke(now Hanson). Large as it was it remained without further division for nearly one hun- dred years. Movements and applications for it were however early and frequently made. In the year 1719, the South, only three years after its incorporation as a parish, applied to the General Court to be made a distinct town, as appears by the petition of Josiah Edson and sixty others, and the North, then 400 APPENDIX. including all the rest of the town, agreed to it, and it was granted in the House of Rep. Nov. 2-1, 1719, but was non-concurred in by the Council. What is now the North also originally petitioned to be a town in 1738, and the town itself consented, and voted also at the same time, as we have already seen, that the South and East should become distinct and separate towns; but the General Court resisted all these applications. Some years be- fore any division was finally effected strong desires for it were manifested, principally from the South and North Par- ishes, which were the most remote from the centre. But means were adopted to obviate complaints and to prevent separation. The town however at last, having increased in population, and the discontent, never entirely appeased, reviving and no longer to be restrained, was rapidly divided into four distinct towns. The North, though the youngest parish, had become the most populous as well as the most distant from the town house, first applied and was incorporated June 15, 1821, by the name of North Bridgewater. The West (the old town) was incorporated Feb. 16, 1822, by the name of West Bridgewater. The East was incorporated June 14, 1823, by the name of East Bridgewater. The South, with Titicut, remains therefore with the old name, Bridgewater, and the town records which had for 166 years re- mained principally at the West, were transferred to the South. It is somewhat remarkable that the South, which was the first to move for separation and often the most forward in it, should after all secure its object and retain the original name by remaining quiet. The inhabitants felt a pride in belonging to so large and respectable a town, and were somewhat reluctant to separate, and therefore endured the inconveniences of union much longer than otherwise perhaps they would have done ; and we accord- ingly see each division still fondly retaining the cherished name as far as public convenience will permit. The old proprietors' records still remain in West Bridgewater. 401 ADDITIONAL CORRECTIONS TO PAGE 8. 1844. Page 8. To the list of Senators in the first paragraph, add Ar- t etnas llalu, and Jesse Perkins. " 83. No. 17. after Eleazar in the parenthesis for 6, read 9. " 106. No. 4. for Rev. Josiah Smith, read Rev. Thomas Smith. " 107. No. 3 & 5, dele Capt.— " 109. Article Barrett. After James 1733, add Robert 1740 6. at N. B. " 113. In No. 2, after Daniel, insert Jacob, Polly to. of Libeus Smith, and Anna, w. of Captain Seth Gurney. " 122. Article Brown, for Emily, read Harriet. " 127. No. 3. for 1643. at the bottom of the page read 1743. — " 131. No. 4. dele probably of John Shaw of Weymouth, and insert, of Ens'n. Josiah Standish. " 152. No. 8. after William Orcutt, for 1755, read 1715. " 157. Article Egerton. for 1834, read 1734.— " 167. Article Gay. for 1725 and 1728, read 1825 and 1828. " 170. Article Hanmer No 2., for Mary, read Martha. " 172. In Article 3, for 1S20, read 1720. « 175. No. 10. for 1720, read 1820. " 182. No. 45. Hannah who m Perkins was not this woman, but D. of Edmund Hay ward No. 40. — " 188. Article Holman. for John Quincy, insert Daniel Quin- cy- " 193. No 9. dele Captain Zebealee Snell 1761, and insert Nathan Willis 1757. Snell perhaps m. Martha, D. of Joshua Howard, No. 113 — ??iA7(il. " 195. No. 24. Susanna who m. Lathrop, was not this woman, but a D. of Capt. Jona. Howard No. 31. " 199. No. 60. dele David 27, and insert Nathan 64.— " 220. Under Article Lydia Kingman — for 1S34, read 1734. " 224. Article Lathrop, add Mark Lathrop was at Salem in 1643. " 226. No. 19. dele Theophilus, and insert Capt. Jonathan. — " 235. No. 5. To the children of Jacob there mentioned, add Joseph, Josiah, and Jacob. Joseph m. an Orcutt, and had Ephraim, Joseph 1696, and a D. who m. a Fisher. Ephraim, (mentioned under No. 7.) had Huldahte. of Josiah Washburn, and perhaps Phebe, who m. Eliab Byram 1741, and several other chil- dren; he removed to N. Jersey. " 236. No. 16. dele 10 or William 13, in the parenthesis, and insert who was s. of Jacob 5. — " " No. 17. dele 11 in the parenthesis and insert, who was s of Jacob 5. He had also three other children, viz: Benjamin 1732, Mary 1722*, Mary 1729'. 402 237. No. 23. To the children of Simeon Leonard, add Stillman 1783. " No. 26. To the children of Simeon Leonard, add Mary 172G, Simeon 1829*, Herman 1831. 267. No. 22. For 20 in the parenthesis, read 21. 269. No. 35. dele James m Rebecca Packard 1783. 275: Art. Pratt. " On the 14th of Jan. 1765, died at Bridge- water Joseph Pratt, a?. 100 years wanting one month; a man of good character and profession ; he had 20 children by his first wife, but none by his second, who still survives him, being about 90 years old." Boston News Letter, Jan. 31, 1765. 307. No. 4 at the bottom, for 2d. in the parenthesis read 3d. 308. No. 8. dele the son Ebenezer, and also the following. He and his son Ebenezer both died a. 1748. Zerviah Standish m. Zebedee Tomson of Halifax 1745. Ebe- nour Jr. m. a Churchill 1739. Sarah Standish m. Josiah Cushman Jr. 1749. 309. In the account of Mrs. Bisbee, dele Standish b. at Captain'' s Hill in Duxbury, and insert — Sampson, and great grand daughter of Alexander Standish. — 310. No. 4. for 1813, read 1830.— 358. Art. Bradford. 2d. line for Ansterfield, read Austerfield, and for 1588, read 1586. 359. Lower line, dele m. Gideon, and on the next page, Sa?npson but left no children — and insert d. 1697. 383. Art. Nash. 6th line for Weymouth, read Plymouth. 387. Third line from bottom, for Caresrull, read Careswell. 389. No. 12. 2d line, for Charles, read William, and for 1739, read 1741. LIDDER, PRINTER, 7 CORNHILL. SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS UNIVERSITY Hc( SPECIAI_C0LLF74.B7M6 mnSRSHiH early se«lement of Bridg 3 5T55 ODOTM E3E 3 7 6 12 4